A critical look at the Portuguese public–private partnerships in healthcare

Pereira, Miguel AlvesFerreira, DiogoMarques, Rui Cunha2023-08-312023-08-312020-10-04Pereira MA, Ferreira DC, Marques RC. A critical look at the Portuguese public– private partnerships in healthcare. Int J Health Plann Mgmt. 2021;36:302–315. https://doi.org/10.1002/ hpm.3084http://hdl.handle.net/10400.5/28345The pre‐conceived idea that contracts in a public–private partnership (PPP) regime, in healthcare or in any other economic sector, are, as a rule, ruinous and appealing for only a share of the stakeholders, lacks a solid basis that confirms it. This idea, outset and nurtured by the media, has been instigating the distrust of the users who, in turn, demand a more rigorous and efficient utilisation of public resources. Being Portugal in the top of countries that resort to PPPs, it is urgent to inquire if its respective contracts originated an inefficient and ineffective management of resources. It is precisely this discussion that we address in this paper, focusing our efforts in the Portuguese healthcare sectorengcontracts, National Health Service, Portugal, public–private partnershipsA critical look at the Portuguese public–private partnerships in healthcarejournal article10.1002/hpm.3084