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Risk of infection higher, hospitalisation lower for...
Risk of infection higher, hospitalisation lower for those vaccinated: Omicron insights...
The two-dose Pfizer-BioNTech vaccination, it was confirmed in a Discovery-led media briefing today when releasing collaborative insights into the Omicron variant, provides 70% protection...
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Omicron not a ‘Doomsday scenario’, but vaccine...
Reporting antivax doctor not an ethical issue
Reporting a doctor who is an antivaxxer to the HPCSA is not an issue if his or her reasons are not science based, Prof...
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...
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Booster jabs for HCWs: Second Sisonke trial...
Stopping clawbacks from funders could be “catastrophic”
If the SA Society of Physiotherapy’s (SASP) should succeed in its court bid to declare unconstitutional Section 59(3) of the Medical Scheme Act (MSA)...
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,...
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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Critical shortage of nephrologists in SA needs...
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...
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CMS Industry Report: admin costs continue to rise despite expenditure, utilisation...
The Council for Medical Schemes (CMS) has confirmed a considerable drop in healthcare benefits expenditure with a concomitant solvency increase for medical schemes in...
Eliminating wastage key intervention to rooting out fraud
Eliminating wastage can be the single biggest intervention that can address productivity, promote professionalism, and root out fraud and corruption.
“It can also promote developmental...
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Managing perceptions vital to NHI debate’s political resolve
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COVID increases focus on...
Think not just about NHI but also about national health investment
Think not just about National Health Insurance (NHI), but also - and probably more importantly - about national health investment.
“Healthcare and investment in healthcare...
Managing perceptions vital to NHI debate’s political resolve
Managing
perceptions by each of the protagonists in the ongoing National Health
Insurance (NHI) debate will be key to it making any progress towards achieving universal
health...
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