The Challenge of Public Participation in European Hospitals: A Portuguese Case Study
Mauro Serapioni, Sofia Crisóstomo, Margarida Santos, Alfredo Campos, David Tavares · 2026
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Mauro Serapioni and four colleagues examine public participation inside hospitals of Portugal's National Health Service, asking how far advisory councils and other channels actually work. Their study pairs a review of participation schemes in several European hospitals with a survey sent to the heads of Portuguese hospital bodies.
Taking part, they found, mostly stops at giving information and asking patients for their views. Patients can state preferences, but they rarely share real decisions. Genuine involvement of patients and their voices in hospital decision-making remains rare and still weak, in Portugal and across Europe. The authors argue hospitals must move past asking views toward a real say in decisions, and they set out what that shift would require in practice.
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| CREATOR | Mauro Serapioni, Sofia Crisóstomo, Margarida Santos, Alfredo Campos, David Tavares |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 41416 |
| LICENSE | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |