The Social Health Authority (SHA) has announced a one-month moratorium on selected Know Your Customer (KYC) documents as it moves to speed up the contracting and onboarding of eligible healthcare providers. The directive, issued on October 7, 2026, takes effect immediately and will run until November 4, 2026, giving healthcare facilities additional time to complete…
County hospitals have been given a 30-day compliance window to complete outstanding requirements as the government moves to complete a new Social Health Authority (SHA) contracting framework before the current contracts expire on October 14, 2026. The Ministry of Health, Council of Governors (CoG) and SHA agreed on the new framework on Monday, October 5,…
Health Cabinet Secretary Aden Duale has clarified Kenya’s transition from the Social Health Authority (SHA) Provider Portal to hospital-based Health Management Information Systems (HMIS), saying the move is intended to eliminate duplicate data entry, streamline claims processing and create a more integrated digital healthcare system. Duale, through the Ministry of Health, said the transition has…
The Ministry of Health has granted health facilities an additional month to complete their transition from the Provider Portal to the Health Management Information System (HMIS), as the government pushes ahead with its shift to a digital and paperless health information system. The Ministry said 6,427 public Level 2-4 health facilities have already completed the…
The Social Health Authority (SHA) has extended the deadline for healthcare providers to complete contracting for the 2026–2029 cycle by 14 days, giving facilities until October 14, 2026, to finalise the process. In a notice dated October 1, 2026, SHA said the extension is intended to give healthcare facilities additional time to complete the contracting…
Hospitals and other healthcare providers have until September 30 to secure new contracts with the Social Health Authority (SHA), with facilities that fail to complete the process facing loss of access to the authority’s system and the need to transfer patients receiving ongoing care. The deadline marks a significant transition for healthcare providers and patients…
Every night at 11 p.m., President William Ruto says a report lands on his phone telling him how many Kenyan women have given birth, how many mothers have died and how many newborns survived or were lost. It is a grim daily scorecard of Kenya’s maternal-health crisis. But the President’s own description of the report…
The Kenya nurses strike has intensified a wider dispute over healthcare financing, workers’ rights and the implementation of collective bargaining agreements, with activist Davies Okombo questioning the Council of Governors’ claim that a key 2017 agreement was signed under duress. Okombo said the legality of the agreement should be determined by a court rather than…
