receita eletrónica
Published 8 November 2026, 20:08
receita sem papel
An electronic prescription: the doctor issues it in the system, and you get a text message with a number and a code. At the pharmacy you give the number, the code and your NIF or número de utente. No paper is needed, and you can collect the medicines on one prescription on several occasions.
Where you come across it. The pharmacy.
The text message goes to the phone number held in the SNS system, so if that number is out of date, the code will not reach you.