NHI will ensure sustainable and equitable distribution of the healthcare workers needed to realise public healthcare re-engineering.
Rural communities represent a consequential part of the SA population. Seven of the nine provinces can be classified as rural. These rural communities still do not have access to quality healthcare.
In 2015 about 70% of SA doctors worked in the private sector, which is largely based in urban areas. Quality healthcare requires access to multidisciplinary teams of healthcare workers. The providers will be from public sector as we know it, and private providers. This will increase access for rural communities to much-needed resources that are in the private sector. The NHI seeks to provide healthcare services closest to where people live. The NHI fund as a strategic purchaser will not only purchase services from providers, but also medicines, laboratory services and radiological technology.
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