Basic nursing failures, including missed warning signs, poor monitoring and unqualified staff in intensive care are behind catastrophic patient harm and the claims that follow.
South Africa’s healthcare system must move beyond blaming individual clinicians when patients are harmed and confront the institutional failures that allow medical errors to reach
Poor adherence to clinical guidelines, inadequate documentation and healthcare workers’ attitudes towards patients are among the leading contributors to medical malpractice litigation in South Africa.
Human judgement must remain at the centre of healthcare accountability even as artificial intelligence and other technologies transform clinical practice, says medico-legal risk specialist Dr
South Africa’s medico-legal crisis is being driven by failures in healthcare delivery, not simply by lawyers or litigation. The country’s exploding medical-negligence bill (at last
