Government to review doctors' revalidation system

Revalidation wave hits European doctors.

Doctors in Japan oppose government plans to reform universal healthcare system.

The Japan Medical Association (JMA), the largest doctors’ group in the country, which represents most private practices and local clinics, is opposing reforms of the universal healthcare system proposed by the government as part of its attempts to deregulate the economy. PrimeMinister Shinzo Abe, who took power in December 2012, has included healthcare reform as a central pillar of the “third a...

Doctors fret while government drags heels.

IZINDABA 78 The office of President Thabo Mbeki took nearly 3 months merely to acknowledge an urgent letter from the South African Medical Association, pleading with him not to sign into law 'draconian' measures dictating where doctors may practise in future. Confirming this early in January, SAMA chairperson, Dr Kgosi Letlape, said doctors were in the 'catch 22' situation of being powerless to...

TABLE 1 Nature of practice between government and private doctors

u in a a n in li h r la d c ta H T SUMMARY A self-answered, anonymously completed questionnaire survey was performed between June 2002 and May 2003 where doctors from government and private sectors in Malaysia were invited to participate by post or during medical meetings. One hundred and sixteen government doctors and 110 private doctors provided satisfactorily completed questionnaires (effect...

Doctors v. government: the first major fight over pay.

Doctors refuse to compromise, says one side. The government cares more about its budget than patients, says the other side. Doctors have rejected a “very fair offer,” says a provincial health minister. Patients can’t wait for the government to balance its books, says a medical association. You know, this all sounds mighty familiar. Much of the rhetoric thrown around today in scuffles between go...