A doctor who prevented his colleagues from performing their hospital duties during an illegal strike and an occupational therapist fined R150,000 for falsifying...Letter
The Health Professions Council has increased annual registration fees by almost 40% in two years and along with the Ombud and Health minister, it continues simply...
March 24th, 2021Although State-employed medical doctors have indemnity against legal claims, this is not an absolute protection, write two Medical Protection experts in MedicalBrief. As...
The Eastern Cape Health Department cannot afford to employ doctors, nurses, health practitioners and community health workers, as they are too busy paying fat-cat...Weekly Roundup
The Health Professions Council of South Africa (HPCSA) is still investigating cases of forced or coerced sterilisations in South Africa. News24 quotes communications...South Africa
TheMedical Protection Society has urged theSouth African government to introduce COVID-19 disaster legislation to protect healthcare professionals from legal challenge...South Africa
Discovery Health, South Africa’s largest private medical schemes administrator, has published a letter to members in which it says there was no racial discrimination...Medico-Legal Analysis
Whether COVID-19 patients in need of extended care in an intensive care unit qualify for ‘emergency medical treatment’ is answered
by considering the South African...Weekly Roundup
South Africa’s 10th medical school, located at Nelson Mandela University’s Missionvale Campus in Port Elizabeth, opens its doors in March 2021.
This was announced...
December 9th, 2020A recent South African Supreme Court of Appeal judgment, in the case of a clinical psychologist against a mining company, may open the door for medical practitioners —...
