Your starting point
Organise continuity of care before moving. Confirm access, coverage and availability with the relevant health service, insurer and clinician.
Keep verified official contacts available before you need urgent help. Use the steps below to organise a decision, not to infer an official approval, a guaranteed price or a universal deadline.
Work through the decision
Immediate danger
For a medical or other emergency in Portugal, call 112 and follow the operator's instructions.
Health guidance
For health triage and advice without immediate life-threatening danger, contact SNS 24 on 808 24 24 24.
Prepare access
Know your address and how responders can enter; this guide does not assess symptoms or replace clinical triage.
Adapt this to your circumstances
Keep citizenship, current residence, household needs and the location of the home separate in your notes. Ask the responsible authority, institution or qualified professional to confirm any requirement that affects your situation. A checklist used by another household may not apply to yours.
Sources and checks
Health regulator — patient FAQs — an official starting point for this topic. The relevant page, its scope and effective date must be checked before a consequential decision.
No market prices, eligibility thresholds or legal deadlines have been invented for this guide. Dates in personal planning tools are suggestions or values you supply.
Make it practical
Open the First 30 Days Checklist to keep the information you collect with your own assumptions, notes and next actions.
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