NATIONAL HEALTH INSURANCE ACT: DRAFT FUND GOVERNANCE REGULATIONS OUT FOR COMMENT

NATIONAL HEALTH INSURANCE ACT: DRAFT FUND GOVERNANCE REGULATIONS OUT FOR COMMENT

• 06 March 2025
• Health & Safety
• SA Legal Academy

The Department of Health has gazetted draft regulations on national health insurance fund governance, calling for input ‘within three calendar months’ (4/5 June 2025).

Developed under the 2023 National Health Insurance (NHI) Act, the proposed new regulations focus on:

• the composition and duties of ad hoc advisory committees, including:
  • appointing and removing members
  • the standards to be met (along with scoring tools and a performance policy), and
  • working procedures
• the board of the fund, including:
  • appointing and removing board members
  • the board’s dissolution
  • electing a chair and deputy chair
  • the standards to be met by each member (along with scoring tools and a performance policy)
  • working procedures
  • co-operation with organs of state and entities
  • board committees, and
  • recruiting, appointing and removing a CEO.

Please click the links below for more information:

• draft regulations
• NHI Act

Published by SA Legal Academy Policy Watch

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