July 29th, 2020The Constitutional Court's decision last week to set aside the conviction and sentence of Dr Danie van der Walt, an obstetrician and gynaecologist jailed for medical...
An ongoing probe by the Special Investigations Unit (SIU) has lifted the lid on apparent wide-scale graft in the Office of the State Attorney, and revealed how...
February 5th, 2020
The State Liability Amendment Bill, which has been "panned by critics and left gathering dust", needs to be updated in line with a recent precedent-setting High...
Gauteng Health failed to spend R504m set aside for equipment in the last financial year, while blowing its budget for hospitals and administration, a situation that...Medico-Legal
The Western Cape High Court has stopped a controversial lawyer from instituting cases against Western Cape Health, pending the outcome of an investigation into his...SA Provincial Health
The Democratic Alliance (DA) has called for the Mpumalanga Health Department to be placed under administration after it recorded at least 29 new medical negligence...South Africa
A group of lawyers has been milking the state of millions of rands in alleged fake medical negligence claims for cerebral palsy cases. News24 reports that this is...Budget 2019
In a pragmatic move to tackle one of the most pressing problems confronting public healthcare, the Treasury has shifted unspent National Health Insurance funds to...
February 20th, 2019
An Eastern Cape attorney arrested by the Hawks on charges of R30m fraud for allegedly raking medical negligence claims dating back to 2013 and 2016, has been granted...
January 30th, 2019A "near exponential" increase in medical negligence claims against the state has left provincial health departments with R80.4bn in contingent liabilities, equivalent to...
