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Mail & Guardian reports that according to National Health Insurance (NHI) deputy director general Nicholas Crisp, the appointments for the heads of two more of the five directorates of the NHI were approved on Monday.
These two positions will oversee user and service provider management and healthcare benefits and provider payment design. The other three directorates, of which two already have heads, are health product procurement; digital systems; and risk identification and fraud prevention. Only the directorate for fraud prevention still needs a chief director. The new staff members will report for work in August or September. The names of the appointees have not yet been released. The latest news comes after the treasury approved money to appoint 44 people in the NHI branch late last year, which will bring the total staff tally for the core office running the branch to about 100 employees. The National Assembly gave the go-ahead for the much debated NHI Bill in June. Under the NHI, private medical schemes will essentially cease to exist – at least they are now known. So, what changes in their healthcare can South Africans expect to see happening in the first year after the Bill’s become law (if approved by the National Council of Provinces)? ‘‘Nothing,” Crisp said in an interview in June. Full implementation “will take decades”. But within the first five years after the Bill’s become an Act, there will probably be fewer medical schemes and their benefit packages will look more or less the same, which will set the groundwork for the basic package the NHI will offer, Crisp indicated.
- Read the full original of the report in the above regard by Mohale Moloi, Linda Pretorius & Mia Malan at Mail & Guardian
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