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many patients healthcare needs met primary healthcare phc clinics kwazulunatal kzn without travel hospital doctors form part teams many phc clinics throughout kzn offering decentralised medical service phc clinic assess benefit medical doctor managing patients complex clinical conditions phc clinic level umgungundlovu district kzn two key questions researched patients clinic doctors managed sufficient clinical complexity warranted doctor managing rather phc nurse clinician ii spectrum medical conditions clinic doctors managed doctors collected data medical consultations phc clinics umgungundlovu february 2020 singlepage standardised data tool used collect data every consultation thirtyfive doctors working 45 phc clinics february 2020 twentysix clinic doctors national health insurance nhiemployed 35 doctors conducted 7 424 patient consultations february staff phc clinics conducted 143 421 consultations month mostly phc nurse clinicians doctors concluded 6 947 936 7 424 doctor consultations sufficient complexity warrant management doctor spectrum medical conditions follows consultations maternal child health n761 102 ii consultations involving noncommunicable diseases ncds n4 372 589 six common ncds order hypertension diabetes arthritis epilepsy mental illness renal disease iii consultations involving communicable diseases constituted 1 745 235 cases iv consultations involving laboratory result interpretation 1 180 159 research showed phc clinic complex patient consultations indeed require skills knowledge medical doctor managing patients data support benefit doctor working every phc clinic doctor musthave member phc clinic team offering regular reliable predictable medical service