The recent recommendation by the Council for Medical Schemes (CMS) to freeze or limit member contribution increases to 3.9% for 2021 will bring much relief to already...
September 16th, 2020Some are spinning the yarn that COVID-19 shows that South African can manage immense healthcare projects. It proves the opposite, writes Financial Mail editor Rob...
September 16th, 2020Convincing a corruption-embattled population to trust a centralised and procurement-based National Health Insurance (NHI) system becomes more difficult with each graft...
August 12th, 2020Despite talk by KwaZulu-Natal Health MEC, Nomagugu Simelane-Zulu about how superior public facilities in the province are to private hospitals, most COVID-19 patients...
It is deeply worrying that, with South Africa facing a debt crisis, the government talks up its National Health Insurance (NHI) proposal as the answer to ailing...News Release
President Cyril Ramaphosa’s appeal to the country in the midst of the COVID-19 crisis to support the government’s National Health Insurance (NHI) scheme for...Weekly Roundup
All private hospitals in Nelson Mandela Bay have suspended non-urgent surgeries and admissions and two are bringing staff from other provinces as facilities are hit by a...South Africa
The Competition Commission has indicated there has been no push-back by private health-care companies after the tabling of a damning report into their conduct. A...
March 4th, 2020
The National Health Insurance (NHI) is protected from government-wide budget cuts, according to the National Treasury. But there is also a hint in the Budget of...
President Cyril Ramaphosa said that public hearings show "broad support" for National Health Insurance and that South Africans "must move away from a culture driven...
