The Government today approved the creation of the Hospital and University Center of the Algarve management structure which will run the region’s hospitals, the Centre for Medicine and Rehabilitation of the South (CMRSul) and research link to the University of Algarve.
This ‘everything under one management’ system will "improve efficiency, create cost savings and use doctors and staff more efficiently while strengthening the connection to the University with medical courses offering health professionals a opportunity train and research."
The decree-law approved today, July 20th, changes the denomination of the Algarve Hospital Center to the Hospital and University Center of the Algarve, “in order to intensify the integration of higher education activities, research and transmission of scientific knowledge in the provision of health care, to increase the quality of care and to contribute to the establishment of qualified professionals in the region.”
The government wants to solve the problems associated with a lack of doctors in the Algarve and the creation of the new entity should solve "all the constraints" in the hiring of human resources.
"It has always made me confused how the Algarve can not attract doctors," said the Prime Minister in Faro on Monday. He believes that by linking the university to regional healthcare, the new body will attract "doctors in search of research and training."
The board of directors of the current management body will all be ‘let go’ and a new team appointed under Ana Paula Gonçalves who currently is the chairman of the board at Faro hospital.
