Last week's item in MedicalBrief outlining the seven-year struggle of Swiss surgeon Dr Markus Michel to have his qualifications accepted by the Health Professions...
November 11th, 2020After 12 years of legal attrition, the Supreme Court of Appeal has ruled that KwaZulu-Natal psychologist Linda Holden can sue mining giant Assmang over a ‘malicious’...
October 28th, 2020Averaged out over the last 10 years Medical Protection has supported members with roughly one new case per month in South Africa that is criminal in nature and related...
June 24th, 2020The “overwhelming feedback” from South African healthcare professionals is that they remain concerned about criminal and regulatory charges over COVID-19 treatment...
Medical Protection Society (MPS) has announced that its members in South Africa will soon benefit from a more local service, with cases and clinical negligence claims...
September 25th, 2019
Not only does the State want to lessen its negligence claims burden by now trying to shed its traditional legal responsibility to indemnify its employees,...
A Cape Town doctor who sexually assaulted a colleague after giving her a date-rape drug has been given a five-year suspended sentence by the Health Professions Council...
February 6th, 2019Dr Tony Behrman, medical business consultant at Medical Protection writes that a recent case heard in the Supreme Court of Appeal SCA 529/2017 has highlighted a...
April 11th, 2017
Professor Tim Noakes cannot be prosecuted for offering unconventional advice, his lawyer Michael Van der Nest says as the Banting guru's misconduct hearing starts...
The Board of Healthcare Funders came in for close questioning at the Competition Commission’s healthcare market inquiry, reports Business Day, with one panellist...
