South Africa’s biggest medical scheme administrator, Discovery Health, is prepared to move members around the country to make room for COVID-19 patients should the...South Africa
The Health Department has finalised the fees it will pay private hospitals for severely ill COVID-19 patients, paving the way for the provinces to negotiate contracts...South Africa
The South African Medical Association (SAMA) has urged private hospitals to pay to improve safety measures to protect the lives of patients and staff following security...
October 31st, 2018In response to a Stellenbosch University study published in last week's MedicalBrief, Donald Dinnie, CEO of Natmed, says the growth in the number of medical negligence...
October 24th, 2018The failure of nurses at private hospitals to follow guidelines, as well as poor monitoring of patients, lies behind rocketing liability claims, according to a...
Provincial health departments are doing such a poor job of issuing operating licences to private hospitals that they are stifling competition and potentially depriving...
December 13th, 2017The SA Health Market Inquiry has blamed private hospitals for much of the above-inflation increases in expenditure reported by medical schemes, according to a...
