SA’s 4th Covid-19 wave: the only certainty remains uncertainty
With global excess death statistics
indicating that almost 17 million people have succumbed to Covid-19 in the past
two years rather than the official figure of...
Proposals to curb escalating medico-legal claims released for comment
With medical negligence claims in both the private and public healthcare sector escalating to billions of rands in the past few years, the South...
Leadership award for Dr Strachan
Dr Simon Strachan, SA Private Practitioners Forum (SAPPF)
CEO and Business for SA executive, is the recipient of the annual Discovery Leadership
in Health Award 2021
Jointly
selected...
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Managing healthcare delivery in future…
The growing trend of patients demanding better healthcare experiences, emerging technologies such as Artificial Intelligence (AI) being put to work, new healthcare models threatening...
Glitch delays rollout of Covid-19 booster shots for healthcare workers
Due to a technical glitch, the start of the
Sisonke Booster Trial for healthcare workers (HCWs) has been delayed by a day.
According to the Department...
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Booster jabs for HCWs: Second Sisonke trial...
Initiative to boost local medical device industry potential, capacity
While the South African medical device industry has enormous potential and capacity, it is fragmented and not functioning optimally.
Constraints to growth of the sector,...
Booster jabs for HCWs: Second Sisonke trial to be launched
The Department of Health says it has secured enough JnJ boosters for the estimated 480 000 healthcare workers who were vaccinated against Covid-19 from...
Need for uniformity in device-related funding stressed
Medical device and funding industry representatives have agreed that, mainly because of the fragmented nature of both relationships and processes, uniform measures have to...
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COVID has shown ‘we can do it!’ – Crisp
The sharing of hospital resources during the height of COVID and the collective effort on the planning and implementation of the entire vaccination programme...
Single payer system ‘takes away diversity of alternatives’
One of the setbacks with a single payer system is that takes way the diversity of alternatives in the event of inevitable failures, Hospital...
Profs Madhi and Schoub honoured for scientific achievements
The Academy of Science of South Africa’s (ASSAf) has bestowed its highest award for outstanding achievement in scientific on to two prominent scientists in...
Up to 180 000 healthcare workers have succumbed to Covid: WHO
The World Health Organization estimates that between 80 000 and 180 000 healthcare workers have died of Covid-19 from January 2020 to May this...
Rollout of JnJ booster jab to HCWs to start in November
The South African Medical Research Council (SAMRC) says it is working with the Department of Health, the South African Health Products Regulatory Authority (SAHPRA)...