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The complexity of sexual consent

Article Palesa Lebitse - 7 Jun 2019

Patients often pay deference to their physicians and can be taken advantage of in the sanctity of consulting rooms

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Did the Health Professions Council trade cash for qualifications?

Article Roxy de Villiers & Bhekisisa Team - 5 Apr 2019

If allegations prove true, it may mean that corruption at the regulator enabled unqualified people to masquerade as doctors and nurses.

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A life-saving shift: New reductions in doctors’ hours are still far off the mark

Article bogdan TagDiv - 12 Sep 2016

Research shows that any shift longer than 16 hours puts doctors and patients at risk.

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HPCSA axes top officials

Article bogdan TagDiv - 26 Apr 2016

The HPCSA has parted ways with its CEO, COO and head of legal services in light of damning findings by a ministerial task team.

Nursing SA back to health

Article Bhekisisa Team - 8 Jan 2016

The government has set several commendable goals but will have to improve its delivery.

Motsoaledi finds HPCSA in state of ‘dysfunction’

Article Mia Malan - 6 Nov 2015

A task team set up by Health Minister Aaron Motsoaledi has found the HPCSA has failed to function effectively.

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[From our archives] Comment: Headache a day helps HPCSA keep media at bay

Article Mia Malan - 16 Apr 2015

The council issued an incorrect media statement on its Tim Noakes hearing on Friday. But its media blunders are not new.

Basson case on hold due to high court application

Article bogdan TagDiv - 21 Jan 2015

Wouter Basson's sentencing hearings are on hold until the high court rules on his interdict application on Thursday.

Basson case postponed over alleged HPCSA conflict of interest

Article Bhekisisa Team - 20 Jan 2015

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.

Basson sentencing off to a rocky start

Article bogdan TagDiv - 27 Nov 2014

The sentencing of private cardiologist Wouter Basson guilty of unprofessional conduct as head doctor during apartheid is off to a contentious start.

Analysis: Tempers flare at Dr Death hearing

Article Mia Malan & Bhekisisa Team - 27 Nov 2014

A move to ban Wouter Basson from medicine has been met with a tongue-lashing from his lawyer.

Dental work’s a kick in the teeth

Article bogdan TagDiv - 17 Oct 2014

Many dental assistants in private practices are paid very little and have to do menial tasks.

Controversial Messina doctor’s medical licence revoked

Article bogdan TagDiv - 23 Apr 2014

Almost a year after the first complaints were filed with the HPCSA about Dr Dube, the Limpopo doctor's medical licence has been stripped.

HPCSA’s inertia sinks foreign medics

Article Bhekisisa Team - 21 Feb 2014

Badly needed and eager to work here, their efforts are being thwarted by a bureaucratic quagmire.

A healthy reaction to vigorous journalism

Article Mia Malan & Bhekisisa Team - 3 Jan 2014

Bhekisisa looks back at, and follows up on, some of the most popular and impactful stories of 2013.

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