Neurosurgery is the specialty with the highest number of interventions in private healthcare (41.7%), followed by Traumatology (36.7%), Surgery and Digestive Surgery (33.9%).
The private sector within the National Health System (SNS) has been playing a crucial role, taking on a significant portion of healthcare activity, helping to alleviate the public system’s resources, and reducing care pressure, thereby enhancing accessibility to medical care.
According to the “2024 Private Healthcare Sector Observatory,” published by the IDIS Foundation, the private sector conducts approximately 5 million surgical interventions in total.