LEGISLATION
You are the link between the community and the health care system . Therefore, as the health care
worker, we have the duty to protect, advise and refer the community members when needed.
NATIONAL HEALTH ACT (NO 61 OF 2003)
National Health Act is based on the National Health Plan and White Paper on Reconstruction of
Health Services principles. Consist of Twelve chapters:
Chapter 1: Objectives of Act, responsibility for health and eligibility for free health services
Chapter 2: Rights and duties of users and health care personnel
Chapter 3: National Health
Chapter 4: Provincial Health
Chapter 5: District Health system for republic
Chapter 6: Health establishment
Chapter 7: Health resources planning and academic health complexes
Chapter 8: Control of use of blood, blood products tissue and gametes in humans
Chapter 9: National health research and information
Chapter 10: Health officers and compliance procedures
Chapter 11: Regulations
Chapter 12: General Provision
OBJECTIVES OF NATIONAL HEALTH ACT
Regulate national health and to provide uniformity in respect of health services in South
Africa by
Encompasses public and private providers of health services
Provides in an equitable manner the population of the Republic with the best possible
health services that available resources can afford
Setting out the rights and duties of health care providers, health workers, health
establishments and users
Protecting, respecting, promoting and fulfilling the rights of:
o Health care users constitutional right of access to health care services, including
reproductive health care
o Children to basic nutrition and basic health care services
o Vulnerable groups such as women, children, older persons and persons with
disabilities
RIGHTS OF HEALTH CARE USERS
1. Right to refuse treatment
2. An informed consent before any procedure
3. Participation in any decisions affecting his or her personal health and treatment
4. Right to emergency medical treatment
5. Right to receive timely accurate information in any health establishment
6. Complain about health care personnel
7. Provided with discharge reports on discharge at a time of discharge from a health
establishment
8. A health care user has the right to be informed in a prescribed manner that the health
services for experimental or research purposes are not part of health services
Notes by @silibazisomupereki
You are the link between the community and the health care system . Therefore, as the health care
worker, we have the duty to protect, advise and refer the community members when needed.
NATIONAL HEALTH ACT (NO 61 OF 2003)
National Health Act is based on the National Health Plan and White Paper on Reconstruction of
Health Services principles. Consist of Twelve chapters:
Chapter 1: Objectives of Act, responsibility for health and eligibility for free health services
Chapter 2: Rights and duties of users and health care personnel
Chapter 3: National Health
Chapter 4: Provincial Health
Chapter 5: District Health system for republic
Chapter 6: Health establishment
Chapter 7: Health resources planning and academic health complexes
Chapter 8: Control of use of blood, blood products tissue and gametes in humans
Chapter 9: National health research and information
Chapter 10: Health officers and compliance procedures
Chapter 11: Regulations
Chapter 12: General Provision
OBJECTIVES OF NATIONAL HEALTH ACT
Regulate national health and to provide uniformity in respect of health services in South
Africa by
Encompasses public and private providers of health services
Provides in an equitable manner the population of the Republic with the best possible
health services that available resources can afford
Setting out the rights and duties of health care providers, health workers, health
establishments and users
Protecting, respecting, promoting and fulfilling the rights of:
o Health care users constitutional right of access to health care services, including
reproductive health care
o Children to basic nutrition and basic health care services
o Vulnerable groups such as women, children, older persons and persons with
disabilities
RIGHTS OF HEALTH CARE USERS
1. Right to refuse treatment
2. An informed consent before any procedure
3. Participation in any decisions affecting his or her personal health and treatment
4. Right to emergency medical treatment
5. Right to receive timely accurate information in any health establishment
6. Complain about health care personnel
7. Provided with discharge reports on discharge at a time of discharge from a health
establishment
8. A health care user has the right to be informed in a prescribed manner that the health
services for experimental or research purposes are not part of health services
Notes by @silibazisomupereki
