Health and Wellness

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 [...]

Portugal’s Algarve is as good if not better than California say successful business owners and professionals who now work and live in Portugal’s sunshine region, with the warm climate, excellent [...]