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Table 4.1
Number of beds in hospitals, primary care and long-term care institutions in Portugal,
per 100 000 population, 1995–2014 (selected years)
1995
2000
2005
2010
2014
Hospitals
383.7
360.9
355.8
337.1
331.9
Primary care
20.7
13.8
9.5
3.6
2.9
a
Long-term care network
b
–
–
–
46.3
71.6
Source
: INE, 2016d.
Notes
:
a
2012 data;
b
the long-term care network was created in 2006.
Portuguese mental health facilities belong to either the public sector or the
private not-for-profit care sector. The first of these includes three psychiatric
hospitals (one in Oporto, one in Coimbra and one in Lisbon), three child and
youth psychiatric and mental health departments (located in the same cities),
and 30 local mental health departments (see section 5.4) spread all over the
country, namely in the main district areas. These are responsible for most of
the mental health care provision (see section 5.11).
Table 4.2 reports on the number of hospitals in Portugal, by type of
hospital and care provision. In Greater Lisbon and in the Algarve, there are
more private hospitals than public hospitals, the same trend occurring in both
Madeira and the Azores (Table 4.2). Compared with 2005, the number of both
NHS and private hospitals increased (from 100 to 113, and from 93 to 107,
respectively). Among private hospitals, the biggest growth was observed in
the North (from 29 to 35) and Greater Lisbon (from 27 to 32) (INE, 2006;
INE/INSA, 2016).
Table 4.2
Number of hospitals, by region, type of hospital and care provision, 2014
Total
Public (NHS)
Private
Other
a
Total
General Specialized
Total
General Specialized
Portugal
225
113
88
25
107
76
31
5
North
72
36
29
7
35
29
6
1
Centre
55
35
26
9
19
16
3
1
Lisbon
60
25
18
7
32
20
12
3
Alentejo
11
7
7
0
4
2
2
0
Algarve
10
4
3
1
6
5
1
0
Azores
8
3
3
0
5
1
4
0
Madeira
9
3
2
1
6
3
3
0
Source
: INE, 2016d.
Notes
:
a
Includes military and prisoner hospitals, which are used exclusively by active and retired military personnel and their families,
and by prisoners, respectively.