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Medicare boss warns of skills migration when NHI rolls out
The UK’s National Health Service, with its drastic personnel shortage, is actively recruiting staff, and with South Africa’s highly valued work ethic and medical...
Minister’s powers in NHI ‘unconstitutional’
One of the many highly contentious issues of the National Health Insurance (NHI) Bill has been the overarching power to be vested in the...
‘No way to fund the NHI’ – Discovery CEO
Critics say while there is a need to change South Africa’s abysmal health system, there were far better options for doing this than the National...
NHI pilots point to critical fault lines
Before plunging into its own concept of universal health care (UHC), and the implementation of the National Health Insurance (NHI) scheme, the government and...
Conflicting legal views present another hurdle in NHI Bill discussions
Parliament's Health Committee has received conflicting legal opinions on the National Health Insurance Bill, leaving MPs with an unexpected headache as they finalise deliberations...
NHI not being built on any one country’s model – Crisp
South Africa’s National Health Insurance (NHI) is not being modelled on the UK’s National Health Service (NHS), and reaction to Health Minister Joe Phaahla’s...
NHI inadequate for medicines provision, warns lobby group
The National Health Insurance (NHI) plan has inadequate provisions for medicines, posing a risk to everyone’s access to treatments, the Health Justice Initiative (HJI)...