SNS Portugal Health Transparency

SNS Portugal Health Transparency MCP Connector for Claude

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Official Portuguese national health service (SNS) open data: SNS24 calls, consultations, surgeries, transplants, blood donors, clinical trials, medicines and the SNS budget — queryable with filters and pagination, zero-auth.

6 tools Official Updated Oct 1, 2026 Official Vinkius Partner

The official transparency portal of Portugal's Serviço Nacional de Saúde as a single MCP server — 144 datasets of authoritative Portuguese public-health data.

What you can do

  • Browse the catalog — SNS24 call volumes, primary-care nursing contacts, scheduled consultations, surgeries, transplants and donors, clinical trials, medicines stock and prescriptions, the SNS budget account, FRIESA efficiency index and more
  • Query with precision — ODSQL filters (where data>='2025-01'), facet refinement, field selection, sorting and true offset pagination
  • Latest values instantly — a dedicated tool that sorts by each dataset's date column and returns the most recent records
  • Lightweight counts — get record counts without fetching rows

Why it matters

This is the SNS's own published data — the same numbers behind Portuguese health policy debates: SNS24 call volumes, elective surgery recovery, transplant activity, blood donation, teleconsultation growth and the health service's public account. Filterable to any period and any institution.

Who is this for?

Healthcare analysts, journalists, policy researchers, students, and AI agents that need authoritative Portuguese national health statistics straight from the source.

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6 tools expose this connector's capabilities to your AI agent.

list_datasets

Covers SNS24 calls, consultations, surgeries, transplants, blood donors, clinical trials, medicines, the SNS budget account and more. Use page/page_size to navigate — never fetch all pages at once. List all open data datasets of the Portuguese SNS (national health service) transparency portal

search_datasets

g. "medicamentos", "transplantes", "cirurgias", "sns24"). Case-insensitive; all words must match. Search SNS datasets by keyword (id, title or field names)

get_dataset

Use a dataset_id from list_datasets or search_datasets. Get full schema and metadata of an SNS dataset (fields, labels, records count)

query_records

where example: data>='2025-01'; order_by: field name, prefix - for desc (e.g. -data); refine: facet=value (e.g. uf=Hospital de São João); select: comma-separated fields. Returns total_count plus the requested page — combine limit/offset to paginate. Query records of an SNS dataset with filters (where, refine, order_by) and pagination

get_latest_records

g. latest SNS24 calls, latest transplants). Get the most recent records of an SNS dataset (sorted by its date column, descending)

count_records

Useful before paginating with query_records. Count records in an SNS dataset (with optional filter), without fetching rows

See how to talk to your AI agent using SNS Portugal Health Transparency.

How many emergency calls were transferred to SNS24 recently?

🏥 **SNS24 emergency call transfers** Latest months (dataset sns24): - 2026-06: 6,766 calls - 2026-05: 6,812 calls - 2026-04: 6,950 calls Series runs monthly since 2012 (174 records). Want the full year-over-year trend or only 2026?

Find datasets about transplants and show the latest numbers

🫀 **Transplant datasets on the SNS portal** Found 2: `orgaos-colhidos-e-transplantados` (organs harvested & transplanted) and `dadores-vivos-e-falecidos` (living & deceased donors). Latest records show kidney remains the most transplanted organ, with living-donor activity trending up year over year. Want the breakdown by organ type?

What is in the SNS account dataset — revenue vs budget?

💶 **Dataset: conta-do-servico-nacional-de-saude** Monthly time series comparing: - Budget: current revenue, fiscal taxes, direct/indirect taxes, social contributions - Execution: actual revenue recorded by the SNS I can pull any month and compute the execution-vs-budget gap. Want the latest month?

No. The SNS transparency portal's Opendatasoft API is fully public — every tool in this MCP works without authentication.

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