The Ministry of Health is responsible for developing health policy as well as managing the SNS. Five regional health administrations are in charge of implementing the national health policy objectives, developing guidelines and protocols and supervising health care delivery. Decentralization efforts have aimed at shifting financial and management responsibility to the regional level. In practice, however, the autonomy of regional health administrations over budget setting and spending has been limited to primary care. COUNT 3
QSN1 What is the Ministry of Health responsible for? ANS1 developing health policy as well as managing the SNS QSN2 How many regional health administrations exist in Portugal? ANS2 Five QSN3 What are the regional health administrations in charge of? ANS3 implementing the national health policy objectives, developing guidelines and protocols and supervising health care delivery