- South Africa’s proposed state-run medical aid, the National Health Insurance (NHI) scheme, will advertise 44 new roles for experts including economists and public health experts. Successful candidates will begin to design the package of services that the scheme will provide in January 2023.
- This is going ahead even though the NHI Bill has not been signed into law. Is this allowed? Those experts who have skills that the health department needs, regardless of whether the NHI is implemented, will get permanent jobs. The other positions will be five-year contract posts.
- The man in charge of getting the NHI off the ground, Nicholas Crisp, explains this decision to Mia Malan.
 positions, based at the national health department head office in Tshwane, will be advertised in the coming weeks and filled by January 2023.){kind=link}