Nurse behaviour, poor guideline compliance driving medical negligence – midwife.Â
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. This is according to veteran Eastern Cape midwife and nurse educator Luleka Gcawu. Gcawu, a senior trainer in the Eastern Cape Department of Health who has worked with the South African […]
Technology cannot carry the blame when healthcare fails – medico-legal specialist.
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 Hlombe Makuluma. Technology can improve healthcare and reduce medico-legal risk, but it cannot become a convenient scapegoat when things go wrong, he adds. “The final decision is human – you can’t blame […]
SA’s medico-legal crisis is a patient-safety crisis.Â
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 count R120 billion or twenty percent of the public health budget), is less a legal problem than a symptom of a deeper crisis in healthcare delivery, with failures in maternity […]
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