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Published 8 November 2026, 20:08
Quadro Global de Referência — the SNS overall framework
The document in which the government sets the public health service's targets and budget for three years at a time: how many appointments and operations to carry out, what share of waiting lists to keep within the TMRG, how many people to recruit and what result to end the year with. Hospitals and ULS draw up their own plans on the basis of it. It is prepared by the Direção Executiva do SNS, signed by the ministers of finance and health, and published in the Diário da República. The framework for 2026–2028 is Despacho n.º 10981-A/2026 of 4 September 2026.
Where you come across it. News about plans for the public health service and about waiting lists.
The figures in it are a plan, not a report, and the plan can be unambitious: in the 2026–2028 framework the share of people with a family doctor is set at the same level for all three years, 85.37%.
Official website: diariodarepublica.pt/dr/detalhe/despacho/10981-a-2026-1166893105