Portugal
General Inspectorate of Health
The Ministry of Health is the government agency whose mission is to define the national health policy, practice standards and the corresponding functions to promote their implementation and evaluate the results.
Its tasks include:
- Ensuring the necessary actions for the formulation, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of health policy;
- Exercising the regulatory functions, planning, funding, guidance, monitoring, evaluation, audit and inspection on the National Health Service;
- Exercising regulatory inspection and supervision on the activities developed by the private health sector which are not integrated in the health system, including the professionals involved.

