Private doctors’ role in DoH’s COVID-19 response: Feedback from the SAPPF
The SAPPF has sent out a communication to members to update them on deliberations with the Department of Health on the many critical outstanding...
Telehealth + COVID-19 adding new dimension to practice management*
Telehealth is a focus at present, given the surge of COVID-19 – a focus that has served to update and expand regulations around telehealth...
Tomorrow’s memorial service for Dr Mini to be streamed
Medical Schemes regulator, the Council for Medical Schemes (CMS), has announced that the memorial service of late CMS chair, Dr Clarence Mini, will be...
Voortgesette inperking: ‘n Perfekte storm broei vir GP’s en pasiënte
This is the first article in a series on the impact of the Covid-19 lockdown on medical practices and patients
Terwyl die wêreld spook om...
COVID-19: special guidelines reminder for medical practice
The Health Professions Council of South Africa (HPCSA) has recognised the severity of the COVID-19 outbreak and has provided special guidelines that apply during...
GPs’ expertise, contacts critical to COVID-19 response
General
practitioners have an incredibly important role to play in meeting many of the health
care requirements now demanded by the coronavirus pandemic, not least in...
All encouraged to complete WHO COVID-19 survey*
African Health Business (AHB) has given notice that deadline for response to the World Health Organisation (WHO) survey in response to COVID-19 is now...
All encouraged to complete WHO COVID-19 survey*
African Health Business (AHB), in a call for all health professionals and groups on the African continent to participate, has given notice that deadline...
OPINION: Nationalising healthcare to save lives in SA, a disastrous consideration
In her article, “Spain did it, so why can’t South Africa nationalise healthcare to save lives?”*published in Mail & Guardian on 12 April, Nimi...
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OPINION: A call for strengthened private and...
Forecasters chart a ‘devastating’ impact of prolonged lockdown on the economy
Pandemics Depress the Economy, Public Health Interventions Do Not*
Titanium Awards deadline extended, reduced to two categories
Convenors of the 6th Annual Titanium Awards have announced that the deadline has been extended to 31 July 2020 and instead of the original...
Occupational health ‘high risk’ for contracting virus
The occupational health environment during this COVID-19 challenge is most certainly stressful and high risk for contracting the disease, according to Far East Rand...
GPs taking strain – and then lockdown!
A drop in patient volumes, tremendous anxiety among patients, and fears for their own safety - let alone that of their staff members -...
Global eHealth company offers doctors free use of secure CLICKDOC video...
In a bid to help curb the spread of COVID-19 CompuGroup Medical is offering its CLICKDOC Video Consultation service for free to the South...
Doctors appeal to President to end hard lockdown now
Almost 30 doctors including GPs, psychiatrists, surgeons and researchers have signed a letter to President Cyril Ramaphosa urging him to relax the current hard...
Medical protection webinar on ‘working outside comfort zone’
Professional groups SAPPF and HealthMan have given advance notice of a webinar to be hosted by the Medical Protection Society next week on “COVID-19:...
Gauteng health centres offer drive-thru Covid-19 testing service
In the interest of assisting with the required efficiencies in the testing for Covid-19, NHC Health Centres now offer their regular patients and the...