High Court ruling invalidates NHI's certificate of need, allowing doctors to practice freely and challenging NHI's central management.
High Court ruling invalidates NHI's certificate of need, allowing doctors to practice freely and challenging NHI's central management.Doctors are delighted at the ruling of the High Court in Pretoria on Wednesday that legislation allowing the government to determine where health professionals can practise is unconstitutional.
Coetzee said it meant doctors could now practise where they wanted to and that NHI in its current form cannot be implemented. “But it must be seen in the context that the president has already made it clear he is willing to negotiate on the NHI regime. “We would have preferred achieving the objective of a stronger health system through a negotiated and collaborative effort to increase the number of medical students and nurses in medical training facilities to address the health care system’s needs.“While the national population has almost doubled since 1994, the number of new medical training facilities opened is insufficient.
“However, from what we have observed to date, there is insufficient clarity on the financial and administrative model being adopted.
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