Private hospitals and clinics in Cape Town found themselves dealing with a different kind of client recently when sickly and poor patients arrived to demonstrate their...South Africa
Many employers are not waiting for the elusive National Health Insurance (NHI) scheme to improve the health of their workers, absenteeism levels and productivity,...Talking Points
By some measures – healthy life expectancy, obesity and depression, among others – South Africa is the unhealthiest country on earth, writes Bob Mash, in the...
April 10th, 2019Health-e News unpacks the health care promises of the major parties in the run-up to May 8's general election.
The ANC’s much-contested National Health Insurance...
The SA Human Rights Commission (SAHRC) has announced that it would not issue an "adverse" report on Gauteng Health after a probe into baby deaths, long waits for...South Africa
Health minister Dr Aaron Motsoaledi says the National Health Insurance may now be referred to as "Ramaphosa-care", as the president is now in charge of the Bill which...Talking Points
The government's private health market inquiry was a red herring intended to create a veneer of legitimacy for further regulation, in preparation of introducing its...
March 27th, 2019Many of SA's provincial departments of health are still overrun with people appointed with little purpose other than to nod through corrupt deals. Spotlight reports that...
Finance Minister Tito Mboweni’s latest budget reveals that per capita spending on public health will decline for the second year in a row – and health infrastructure...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...
