ACSS
Published 30 October 2026, 20:39
ACSS — Administração Central do Sistema de Saúde (Central Administration of the Health System)
A Ministry of Health body that keeps count and allocates resources: how many patients are registered, how many have a family doctor, how many posts are open in recruitment competitions for doctors and how they are filled. Its figures are the ones that end up in the news and on the SNS transparency portal.
Where you come across it. Statistics on people without a family doctor, recruitment competitions for doctors' posts, rules on patient lists.
The data are updated monthly with a lag of one or two months: at the end of August the latest complete month is June.
Official website: acss.min-saude.pt