DoH ‘notes concerns’ of health experts as outcry of health professionals...
“We have noted the issues and concerns raised in the letter penned by the health experts and researchers. As the Department of Health, we...
OPEN LETTER: Stop victimisation of healthcare professionals and fix the public...
More than 140 of the country’s top healthcare leaders including clinicians in both the public and private healthcare sector, academics, scientists and health experts...
Contributory negligence, apportionment of damages: shared liability not to be overlooked
The steep increase in the number of medical malpractice lawsuits in South Africa in the past few years - with obstetricians, gynaecologists and neurosurgeons...
GDoH on an apparent roll to address issues raised in Dr...
In an indication that it is starting to move on the dire conditions in Gauteng’s public health service recently highlighted by paediatric gastroenterologist Dr...
Gene testing athletes to prevent sudden cardiac death: strict recommendations
Recommendations on how to use gene testing to prevent sudden cardiac death in athletes and enable safe exercise have just been published in the European...
First for Africa: Robotic assisted cardiothoracic surgery now available at Christiaan...
In a first for the continent, a cardiothoracic robotic assisted surgery programme has been established at Netcare Christiaan Barnard Hospital to provide less invasive...
‘Gentle giant’ of surgery, Dr Stephen Grobler, dies at weekend
Noted surgeon and gastroenterologist, Dr Stephen Grobler, died in Bloemfontein at the weekend after suffering a stroke earlier in the week.
An MBChB graduate from...
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SAPPF expressed its outrage at further action against Dr De Maayer
The South African Private Practitioners Forum (SAPPF) has added its voice to the renewed outrage over continuing disciplinary action against reinstated paediatric gastroenterologist, Dr...
Rahima Moosa’s reinstated Dr Tim de Maayer still subject to disciplinary...
Despite the lifting of his suspension and the Gauteng Department of Health indicating that the “matter was resolved amicably”, it appears as if disciplinary...
The current health system is ‘failing everyone’
By BH Groenewald*
“Many poor people are denied care when they need it. Many privileged people are given treatment that they don’t need – some...
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Suspended paediatrician reinstated at Rahima Moosa after national outcry
Twenty-four hours after he was put on precautionary suspension for writing a letter in the Daily Maverick in which he spoke out about the...
Call for SA Heart Congress abstracts
The Organising Committee of the SA Heart “FACE TO FACE: The case for Hybrid Cardiology” congress, to be held at the Sandton Convention Centre from...
Death notification forms: Take a breath before signing them off –...
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University, NAEP pay tribute to renowned asthma specialist, Prof Robin Green
The University of Pretoria (UP) and the National Asthma Education Programme (NAEP) have been among the many institutions and organisations to pay tribute this...
SA’s emergency medics ace burn-out as challenges mount
By Chris Bateman
In a society fraught with violence, trauma and disease, SA’s thinly spread, routinely exhausted front-line emergency medicine, (EM), physicians, are burning out...