- casa de saúde santa filomena, sa coimbra sanfil medicina, sa hospital sams lisbon trade union of the bank employees other hospitals hospital das forças armadas (military) hospital real de todos os santos (destroyed by the 1755 lisbon earthquake) hospitais civis de lisboa (extinct local network) santa casa da misericórdia (national network) health cluster portugal champalimaud foundation in lisbon, a world class biomedical research institution and one of the founders of the hcp. portugal has been identified as a center of competence in health connected activities, with the potential to become a cluster of excellence with international vocation. in order to develop that potential, in 2008, several public and private organizations related with the health sector - including medical services providers, pharmaceutical industrial companies, universities and research and development entities - founded the health cluster portugal (hcp). its objective is to make portugal a competitive player in the research, design, development, manufacture and marketing of products and associated health services in niche markets and selected technology, targeting the most demanding and most important international markets. the strategy of the hcp focuses in the development of the following areas: welfare and active ageing; preventive medicine in the areas of neurodegenerative, cancer, cardiovascular, osteochondropathy, inflammatory, infective and metabolic diseases; health tourism; ehealth.