Portugal’s National Health Service (SNS) is under sustained pressure across its emergency departments, with waiting times described as “very critical” by Health Minister Ana Paula Martins, espec1
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Zoonoses surveillance across Europe in 2024 continued to link human infection patterns with food chain controls and outbreak prevention. Monitoring drew on human surveillance systems and re
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Green initiatives in Intensive Care Units (ICUs) increasingly focus on reducing the environmental footprint of routine care. Common measures include lowering glove use, replacing absorption
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Across the WHO European Region, doctors and nurses are moving between countries at an increasing rate, reshaping national workforce supply and dependency. A peer-reviewed synthesis publishe
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Long waits for non-urgent care remain a persistent challenge across many health systems, with backlogs exacerbated by pandemic disruptions. Delays can postpone treatment benefits, allow sym
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International recruitment has become a cornerstone of the United Kingdom’s health and social care workforce strategy. In 2022–2023, almost half of new registrants with the Nursing and Midwi
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Hospitals increasingly rely on machine learning to identify ward patients at risk of deterioration, yet concerns remain about whether such tools behave fairly once embedded in care. An eval
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Medicines and vaccines can deliver major gains in prevention and treatment, yet access is often delayed or uneven once products exist. Bottlenecks arise across a linked sequence of steps, w
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Provider networks underpin nearly every workflow between healthcare organisations and influence how insurers, commissioners and health authorities manage coverage growth. When those network
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Large language model (LLM) chatbots are becoming commonplace in clinical contexts, including for generating differential diagnoses. Outputs can vary depending on how users frame and structure in1
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