Introducing a National Health Service: obstacles

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C de Beer, E Buch, J Mavrandonis

Medicine and Law

|January 1, 1989

Abstract:

Historical background to proposals for a Natural Health Service is briefly given. The need for a National Health Service is described and substantiated and obstacles to the transformation of the South African Health Service are described. Suggestions are made for laying the foundation for substantial changes in the future.

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