ULS São João (promoting entity in Portugal), ULS Tâmega e Sousa and IPOP were the pioneering Portuguese centers, which were joined a year ago by five more institutions: ULS Braga, ULS Gaia/Espinho, ULS Região de Aveiro, ULS Santa Maria and ULS São José.
These eight new hospitals participated the Global-PPS training in December 2024 and successfully conducted the Global-PPS in January 2025. Based on these results, they collectively defined sixteen quality improvement interventions focused on antibiotic use. These initiatives aim to reduce individual and collective collateral damage associated with antibiotic use and, in this way, reduce the emergence of antibiotic-resistant bacteria.
In this newest edition of the course, eight additional teams from eight new institutions were formed: ULS Nordeste, ULS Alto MInho, ULS Alto Ave, ULS Coimbra, ULS Esttuário do Tejo, ULS Almada-Seixal, ULS Amadora-Sintra, ULS Lisboa-Ocidental, thus expanding the Portuguese drive-AMS network to sixteen national hospitals.