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Mail & Guardian reports that the Health Professions Council of SA (HPCSA) says recommendations put forth by a ministerial task team, which would amount to a complete overhaul of the “dysfunctional” organisation, are “advices or proposals and therefore not binding”.
Last year, Health Minister Aaron Motsoaledi set up a task team to investigate an increasing number of complaints against the HPCSA, which regulates health professionals. The investigation found that the council “is in a state of multisystem organisational dysfunction”. Amongst many negative findings, delays with the professional conduct enquiries system were found to prejudice practitioners and cause the public to lose faith in the HPCSA’s complaints system. The HPCSA says it is conducting its own investigation and studying the ministerial task team’s report, and will “then make its own decisions on all matters pertaining to the report”. Meanwhile, says the Council, the “operations of the HPCSA have not been disrupted”.
- Read this report by Ina Skosana in full at Mail & Guardian
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