While some improvements have taken place at Johannesburg Hospital, doctors are concerned that they are being forced to play God, while Government refuses to take political responsibility for those decisions involving limiting care.

Almost two years after Gauteng'€™s Commission of Inquiry into Hospital Care Practices, the provincial Department of Health has been working to implement some of the commission's recommendations -- aimed at ultimately improving hospital services. But senior specialists at the province'€™s two largest hospitals believe that little has changed. In fact they believe certain things are worse. Is this a fair assessment or have things changed, even though progress may be slow. Anso Thom spoke to those at the coal face'€¦