Netcare warns nursing shortage a threat to everyone’s healthcare
The government has been informed well in advance, but chooses to ignore the crisis, says CEO
22 May 2023 - 09:55
UPDATED 22 May 2023 - 23:00
Private hospital group Netcare CEO Richard Friedland has sounded a stark warning about SA’s nursing shortage, saying the crisis is putting a damper on the company’s growth prospects and threatens the provision of healthcare in both the public and private sectors.
The private hospital sector has grown outspoken about SA’s nursing shortage. It is frustrated by the state’s squeeze on the number of nurses trained in the private sector. Netcare, for example, had been accredited to train more than 3,000 a year; it now trains barely a 10th of that...
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