Health Professions Council Of South

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.

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.

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.