Outsourcing to the private sector will be a waste of money for NHI

But state capacity needs to be upped and skills retained because now ‘we are training specialists for private sector’

27 May 2021 - 20:50 By sipokazi fokazi

The implementation of the National Health Insurance (NHI) could be lot cheaper if the state makes use of its own trainee specialist doctors and uses in-house specialist services rather than hiring private specialists, as envisaged by the insurance scheme, new research suggests. ..

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