The Madeira Regional Health Service (SESARAM) today revealed that it will provide weekly balance sheets of care in the Emergency Department of the Funchal Hospital, pointing the first balance for a total of 2,418 entries.
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09/11/2026
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O Regional Madeira Health Service (SESARAM) today revealed that it will start to provide weekly balances of care in the Emergency Department of the Hospital do Funchal, pointing the first balance for a total of 2,418 entries.
“ In the month that marks the implementation of the Manchester Screening, SESARAM starts to disclose weekly the number of visits made in the Emergency Services, reinforcing health literacy ", reads in the document.
It recalls that this Manchester Screening system was created in November 1994 to “determine the clinical priority of care for each patient based on the evaluation of the signs and symptoms identified by the user and the health professional”.
It also points out that this constitutes an “essential clinical tool for the efficient management of the Emergency Service, which uses a color code to identify the degree of priority and risk of the clinical situation of each user, ensuring that the most urgent cases are treated first.”.
The most serious, which has immediate care, is classified as red, followed by the orange that means “very urgent” and can have a wait until 10 minutes, then the yellow that represents “urgent” and should be attended quickly, but can wait until 60 minutes.
The green is considered “not very urgent” and “can wait for care or be referred to other health services”, and the blue is evaluated as “not urgent” and can wait up to four hours.
In the first eight days of November, SESARAM indicates that there was a total of 2,418 visits in the ER of Hospital Dr. Nélio Mendonça, 1,887 in general and 531 in pediatrics.
Of the total number of registered visits, 1,112 were classified as very urgent (yellow), 11 as emergency (red), 446 as not urgent (green) and 28 as not urgent (blue).
In pediatric patients, 321 were screened as green (unurgent), 177 yellow (urgent), 30 orange (very urgent) and three non-urgent, with no emergency reports.
In addition to the emergency services at Dr. Nélio Mendonça Hospital, Madeira also has nine urgent care services in several health centers in the region.
SESARAM also stresses that “unurgent and non-urgent situations should focus on the use of the health center in the area of residence, contributing to the availability of the Emergency Service for urgent cases”.