The insurer Fidelidade, which is mostly held by the Chinese holding Fosun, is mulling floating Luz Saúde on the Lisbon stock market (Euronext Lisbon) through an IPO while retaining a majority [...]

The number of people looking for private health packages in Portugal rose by 10% or +3.4 million in 2022 according to the Portuguese Insurance Association (APS). At a time when Portugal’s [...]

The President of the Council of Public Finances, Nazaré da Costa Cabral has suggested the National Health System (SNS) could be financed by an Ireland-style ‘social insurance’ scheme. It would [...]

Last week a leading light in Portugal’s conservative centre-right Social Democratic Party (PSD) expounded the view that while Portugal’s SNS National Health Service is “safe in our hands”, the [...]

The Portuguese private hospital group CUF has gone from losses of €23.8M in 2020 to a profit of €34.7 million in 2021. The result also represented a “€5.7 million increase on 2019” according to [...]

There are six in the running to buy the private healthcare group Lusíadas including Luz Saúde. The other groups in the running are Viamed, Quirónsalud, Vithas and HM Hospitales. Lusíadas is [...]

Private health care groups which operate under Public Private Partnership (PPP) contracts with the Portuguese National Health Service say they are owed millions of euros in compensation for the [...]

SWORD Health, the Portuguese startup that created the first digital solution for the treatment of musculoskeletal problems, had acquired Bright Technology’s software development unit. The [...]

Icade Santé and Icade Healthcare Europe from the French group Icade, has purchased the health fund Saudeinveste from Portuguese insurer Fidelidade for €200 million. Saudeinveste has a portfolio [...]

The coronavirus pandemic has exposed glaring deficiencies in the healthcare systems on the world; this, along with ageing populations and the global proliferation of chronic diseases, will pull [...]