Medico-Legal Aspects of Cerebral Palsy: A Handbook for Legal and Healthcare Practitioners By RK Ramdass Cape Town: Juta (2024) 1st Edition Price: Print R 297 / eBook R 275 Pages: […]
Read moreIn June 2023, the Minister of Health, Dr Joe Phaahla, published new regulations (GN R3564 GG48838/23-6-2023), which amended the Health Professions Council of South Africa’s (HPCSA) professional conduct inquiry process. […]
Read moreBy Muano Mudzanani The Mashinini v Member of the Executive Council for Health and Social Development Gauteng Provincial Government (SCA) (unreported case no 335/2021, 18-4-2023) (Zondi JA (Schippers and Gorven […]
Read moreIt is often stated that the medical aid industry is prone to abuse by members and health practitioners because payments for services rendered are made in good faith. In recent […]
Read moreThe National Health Insurance Bill B11 of 2019 (the Bill) has garnered considerable comments, questions and, views from laypeople and legal commentators alike. The overarching concerns surrounding the Bill involves […]
Read moreBy Sarel Steel, Andre Stephan Botha and Tashvir Khalawan The quantification of damages in certain legal matters involves calculating the capitalised value, or expected present value, of a list of […]
Read moreManzi v King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust [2016] EWHC 1101 (QB) By Natasha Naidoo The judgment handed down in Manzi v King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust [2016] EWHC […]
Read moreBy Moffat Ndou Section 15 of the Mental Health Care Act 17 of 2002 (MHCA) provides that a mental health care user is entitled to representation, including a legal representative. […]
Read moreBy Dr Henry Lerm Picture the typical set-up in an operating theatre in the eighteenth century. There, he was, the lone medical man, scalpel in hand, hunched over the patient […]
Read moreBy Wihann Joubert No other consumer/provider relationship in South Africa (SA) starts off on a more unbalanced level as the relationship between the consumer of health services and the provider […]
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