Directorate-General of Health and Regional Directorate for Health of the Azores sign collaboration agreement on health programmes - Communication

Secretaria Regional da Saúde e Segurança Social

The Directorate-General of Health (DGS) and the Regional Directorate for Health of the Azores will sign a General Collaboration Agreement aimed at strengthening joint work between the national and regional health programmes. It will create the conditions for the development of specific protocols that respond to the health priorities of the Azorean population.

This agreement will be signed during another initiative of the "National Health Plan (PNS) 2030 on the Move," which will make its first visit outside Mainland Portugal to the Autonomous Region of the Azores on May 29, in Angra do Heroísmo.

The new itinerary of the PNS 2030 marks the full integration of the autonomous regions into the national roadmap for sustainable health that reaches out to people. It is also the first official visit of the Director-General of Health, Rita Sá Machado, to the Autonomous Region of the Azores, reiterating the commitment to territorial cohesion and equality in health.

In addition to addressing the national plan, the event also highlights the 2030 Azores Regional Health Plan, highlighting the importance of integrated and multisectoral action to respond to health problems and their determinants throughout the life cycle.

"PNS 2030 on the Move" is a mobilisation project for the implementation of an innovative, sustainable, people-centred, collaborative PNS that is close to communities and professionals. 

This event will be promoted by the DGS in partnership with the Regional Directorate for Health of the Azores. It will be attended by various institutional representatives and regional partners in a moment of listening, sharing, mobilisation and collective commitment.

The PNS 2030 is a project designed for a decade with the ambition of generating more life and better health, aligned with the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. It underlines that everyone is responsible for playing an active role in promoting health that leaves no one behind and protects the planet.