The Minister may make regulations regarding human resources within the national health system in order to—
| (a) | ensure that adequate resources are available for the education and training of health care personnel to meet the human resources requirements of the national health system; |
| (b) | ensure the education and training of health care personnel to meet the requirements of the national health system; |
| (c) | create new categories of health care personnel to be educated or trained; |
| (d) | identify shortages of key skills, expertise and competencies within the national health system and to prescribe strategies which are not in conflict with the Higher Education Act, 1997 (Act No. 101 of 1997), for the— |
| (i) | recruitment of health care personnel from other countries; and |
to make up the deficit in respect of scarce skills, expertise and competencies;
| (e) | prescribe strategies for the recruitment and retention of health care personnel within the national health system; |
| (f) | ensure the existence of adequate human resources planning, development and management structures at national, provincial and district levels of the national health system; |
| (g) | ensure the availability of institutional capacity at national, provincial and district levels of the national health system to plan for, develop and manage human resources; |
| (h) | ensure the definition and clarification of the roles and functions of the national department, provincial departments and municipalities with regard to the planning, production and management of human resources; and |
| (i) | prescribe circumstances under which health care personnel may be recruited from other countries to provide health services in the Republic. |
