Government departments owe Gauteng Health R196m
Government departments owe the struggling
Gauteng health department R196 million in outstanding patient fees. DA Shadow
Health MEC, Jack Bloom, says this has been disclosed in the...
Work needed ‘to restore faith in Health Technology Assessment (HTA)’
The generally negative perceptions of Health Technology Assessment (HTA) processes in South Africa largely due to the fragmented nature of their implementation and to...
NEHAWU to start protest action against private healthcare sector
Labour union, NEHAWU has announced that it will be picketing against the high cost of private healthcare in front of Netcare’s headquarters in Sandton...
CMS Annual Report: Financial health of schemes and members declining as...
Findings of the Health Market Inquiry on increasing healthcare costs in the private sector and its recommendations for far-reaching changes to the current status...
State’s right of recovery against its Doctors
Part 2
(Continued from Part 1: Med Brief Africa 8 October 2019)
A Province would be vicariously liable for harm caused by the negligent conduct of...
No hospitals in Gauteng accredited for NHI
No hospitals and only 40 out of 372 provincial clinics in Gauteng have so far been assessed for the proposed National Health Insurance (NHI).
This...
State’s right of recovery against its Doctors
Part 1*
As a general rule an employer, such as a private hospital or, the
Province, in the case of a state health facility, is liable...
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Claim against attorneys for prescribing a medical malpractice claim
The plaintiff sued a firm of attorneys for allowing his claim against the MEC for health to prescribe. His injuries arose out of him...
Statement on ethics of AI in radiology published
Experts in the use of artificial intelligence (AI) in radiology, from many of the world’s leading radiology, medical physics and imaging informatics groups, have...
Fixing private sector incentives an NHI prerequisite: HMI panellists
Should the NHI Bill have been drafted and presented to Parliament before the Health Market Inquiry (HMI) panellists had finished their work and released...
HMI outcomes monitoring proposal: standards office relationship considered?
When deciding on the establishment of an independent Outcomes Monitoring and Reporting Organisation (OMRO), the Health Market Inquiry (HMI) panel was asked at this...
Prostate cancer risk higher in men on fertility treatment
Men fathering children through assisted reproduction techniques rather than natural conception, a study just published online in The BMJ has warned, have an increased risk...
CompCom, after 2004 banning, in full support of HMI bargaining proposal
By guiding
the Health Market Inquiry (HMI) through all its moments and challenges to reach
its comprehensive finality with the presentation of the report to government
this...
Health Sector Anti-Corruption Forum launched
President Cyril Ramaphosa has officially launched the Health Sector Anti-Corruption Forum (HSACF) that was established to root out fraud and corruption in the health...
HMI sticks to its findings and recommendations in final report
After almost six years of work and almost R200 million spent on its investigation, the Competition Commission’s Health Market Inquiry into the private health...
Netcare scores global gold for going green
Netcare has won the prestigious 2019 Association of Energy Engineers (AEE) Sub-Saharan Africa Region Corporate Energy Management Award, which was presented to the group...
CONNECTING THE DOTS: Digital health defined
This is the first in a series of articles on digital innovation in the medical field and how it will affect, improve and change...