Patients often pay deference to their physicians and can be taken advantage of in the sanctity of consulting rooms
If allegations prove true, it may mean that corruption at the regulator enabled unqualified people to masquerade as doctors and nurses.
Research shows that any shift longer than 16 hours puts doctors and patients at risk.
The HPCSA has parted ways with its CEO, COO and head of legal services in light of damning findings by a ministerial task team.
The government has set several commendable goals but will have to improve its delivery.
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/ 6 November 2015
A task team set up by Health Minister Aaron Motsoaledi has found the HPCSA has failed to function effectively.
The council issued an incorrect media statement on its Tim Noakes hearing on Friday. But its media blunders are not new.
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/ 21 January 2015
Wouter Basson’s sentencing hearings are on hold until the high court rules on his interdict application on Thursday.
Wouter Basson’s lawyers have called for the recusal of an HPCSA committee over suspected involvement in a petition to strike him off the medical roll.
The sentencing of private cardiologist Wouter Basson guilty of unprofessional conduct as head doctor during apartheid is off to a contentious start.
A move to ban Wouter Basson from medicine has been met with a tongue-lashing from his lawyer.
Many dental assistants in private practices are paid very little and have to do menial tasks.
Almost a year after the first complaints were filed with the HPCSA about Dr Dube, the Limpopo doctor’s medical licence has been stripped.
Badly needed and eager to work here, their efforts are being thwarted by a bureaucratic quagmire.
Bhekisisa looks back at, and follows up on, some of the most popular and impactful stories of 2013.
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/ 18 December 2013
Family members of victims of Wouter Basson have expressed relief that the apartheid-era doctor has been found guilty after a six-year trial.
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/ 28 November 2013
A new complaint has been filed against Limpopo doctor Allick Dube.
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/ 22 November 2013
Wouter Basson, one of SA’s controversial apartheid-era figures, may be banned from practising medicine, but cardiology would suffer, say patients.
The HPCSA will rule on Wouter Basson’s fate on December 18 after a five-year long inquiry into his actions during apartheid.
Wouter Basson’s lawyer says it is important to not view the case into the apartheid chemical warfare programme with an "armchair approach".
SureTouch does not claim to be a substitute for proper breast cancer screening, but patients are being misled.
The Health Professions Council of South Africa’s hearing into the conduct of Dr Wouter Basson is set to resume on Friday.
A man has taken two specialists to task for a "misdiagnosis" that nearly cost him his foot
The truth is, the phenomenon is not the mystical and magical art many assume it is.
Private doctors have accused the health minister and the Health Professions Council of South Africa of a having a "hidden agenda"
The council deciding Wouter Basson’s fate is fuelling "ambulance chasing" by encouraging the public to complain about doctors, a medical group says.
Advocate Salie Joubert has accused controversial cardiologist Dr Wouter Basson of being an "untruthful witness" and not accepting responsibility.