National Health Act, 2003 (Act No. 61 of 2003)RegulationsRegulations relating to Categories of Hospitals6. Central Hospitals |
| (1) | A central hospital— |
| (a) | must provide tertiary hospital services and central referral services and may provide national referral services; |
| (b) | must provide training of health care providers; |
| (c) | must conduct research; |
| (d) | receives patients referred to it from more than one province; |
| (e) | must be attached to a medical school as the main teaching platform; and |
| (f) | must have a maximum of 1200 beds. |
| (2) | Central referral services are provided in highly specialised units, require unique, highly skilled and scarce personnel and at a small number of sites nationwide. |
| (3) | National referral services— |
| (a) | refer to super-specialised national referral units; and |
| (b) | represents extremely specialised and expensive services (e.g. heart and lung transplant, bone marrow transplant, liver transplant, cochlear implants). |