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Doctor guilty of R2.25m RAF fraud
An Eastern Cape doctor has been found guilty on fraud and corruption charges, notes a News24 report. Tony Moodley (66) appeared in the Specialised...
Dlamini-Zuma appeal may mean another smoking ban — Fita
The Fair Trade Independent Tobacco Association (Fita) has warned that a decision by the government to appeal a judgment declaring the prohibition of tobacco...
US-Ghanaian surgeon who saved rapper 50 cent guilty of $29m fraud
Dr Moses de-Graft Johnson, a dual citizen of the United States and Ghana, pled guilty today to committing health care fraud, conspiracy to commit...
Eastern Cape doctor guilty of defrauding Road Accident Fund
An Eastern Cape doctor has been found guilty of fraud and corruption, after he lodged a false claim of R2.25m with the Road Accident...
Medical scientists call for Chief Justice’s impeachment over vaccination comments
Are South Africa's Chief Justice Mogoeng Mogoeng comments on a COVID-19 vaccine that is ‘of the Devil’ deserving of calls by medical scientists and...
Dementia class action likely to force world rugby unions to act
World rugby union authorities are likely to be forced into immediate safety measures to reduce the risk of lawsuits from current and future players,...
SIU gets another bloodied nose in attempt to reopen settled medical negligence claim
For the second time, the Eastern Cape High Court has rebuffed attempts to revisit a medical negligence claim that was previously settled but is...
Legal action against Department of Health for failing to place junior doctor
The SA Department of Health (DoH) faces legal action for allegedly failing to place a medical graduate at a state facility to complete her...
Ockenden Report into 'one of the biggest scandals in NHS history'
An independent review by senior midwife Donna Ockenden into what has been described as the biggest maternity scandal in the history of the British...
British mutation of coronavirus: 'Faster but not more serious'
The UK has notified the World Health Organisation over the latest variant, which appears to be responsible for the faster spread of the virus...
England rugby CEO says lawsuit threat over concussion can drive change
Bill Sweeney, the chief executive of the England Rugby Football Union admits it must “allay fears” about the safety of the game as the...
AG: SANDF already paid some of R260m for Cuban COVID 'wonder cure'
The Auditor-General has confirmed that the SA National Defence Force has been invoiced to the tune of R260m for Heberon Interferon-Alpha-2B, an unregistered medical...
Health Ombud completes probe into Tembisa Hospital patient's death
The Office of the Health Ombud has completed its investigation into the death of businessman Shonisani Lethole at Tembisa Tertiary Hospital in July, reports...
Office of Health Standards Compliance publishes enforcement policy
A recently-gazetted Office of Health Standards Compliance (OHSC) norms and standards enforcement policy prescribes the process to be followed by its employees in their...
World rugby faces landmark class action over neurological damage
World rugby authorities face a group class action for negligence following diagnoses of early onset dementia among retired players allegedly caused by repeated blows...
SCA opens the door to curbing malicious HPCSA complainants
A recent South African Supreme Court of Appeal judgment, in the case of a clinical psychologist against a mining company, may open the door...
CMS fails to place medical fund under curatorship
The Council for Medical Schemes (CMS) has suffered a major loss in the Gauteng High Court (Pretoria) where its attempt to place Sizwe Medical...
NHLS executives suspended following PwC audit
The National Health Laboratory Service has suspended its chief financial officer, supply chain head and an unspecified number of other officials after a PricewaterhouseCoopers...
Landmark UK ruling on puberty blockers for under-16s
Children under 16 with gender dysphoria are unlikely to be able to give informed consent to undergo treatment with puberty-blocking drugs, three UK High...
COVID-19: SA imposes stricter international visitor requirements
Among other things, a directive issued yesterday by Health Minister Zweli Mkhize has implications for prospective visitors to SA during the Covid-19 State of...
SIU briefs media on health sector corruption cases
The Special Investigating Unit (SIU) says it has dealt with 20 allegations of serious maladministration, fraud and corruption relating to the health sector, reports...
R173m annual SAPS healthcare tender is challenged
The tender to render police healthcare services over the next three years is being challenged one of the losing bidders, who has asked the...
HPCSA rapped over 7-year delay in accepting top Swiss surgeon's qualifications
A leading orthopaedic surgeon who emigrated to South Africa but for more than seven years couldn’t get the Health Professions Council to accept his...
Unfairly dismissed health manager wants Western Cape Health MEC charged
A Western Cape nursing manager who was unfairly dismissed wants Western Cape Health and the province's Health MEC Nomafrench Mbombo charged with contempt of...
Baby girl's death covered up for 20 years — UK inquiry
The avoidable death of a baby girl was covered up by NHS staff and oversight organisations over 20 years, a damning UK inquiry has...
Eastern Cape Health to appeal interdict against air ambulance tender
Eastern Cape Health MEC Sindiswa Gomba intends appealing a High Court interdict against the department’s air ambulance service tender award, and the successful bidder...
COVID-19: Court allows legal challenge to UK care home deaths
A UK High Court will hear a legal challenge over the “shocking death toll” from UK coronavirus in care homes, rejecting the arguments for...
Missing records at top UK hospital point to 'cover up' of toddler's death
A failure to be able to produce contemporaneous handwritten case notes by nurses and doctors have led to a world-leading children’s hospital in the...
Gauteng Health slashes medical liability claims by almost R7bn
Medico-legal liability claims against the Gauteng Health totalled R589m from July to September this year, reports Politicsweb.
But overall, the department has brought down its...
Pandemic unleashes a wave of verbal and physical abuse at healthcare professionals
Almost a third (31%) of healthcare professionals in South Africa have suffered verbal or physical abuse from patients, patients’ relatives or the public during COVID-19, according...
Doctors want immunity for prosecution over COVID decisions
Doctor organisations have called for immunity from prosecution to UK doctors forced to choose which patients to treat during the coronavirus pandemic, reports The...
Bayer: Lawsuit by 200 UK women over Essure sterilising device
Lawyers have begun legal action on behalf of 200 UK women against the makers of the Essure sterilisation device, after claims of illness and...
AA sceptical over reduction of blood alcohol limits
The Automobile Association (AA) has expressed concern over proposed amendments to the National Road Traffic Act to reduce the legal blood alcohol limits for...
Culpable homicide case agains paediatric surgeon Beale postponed
The criminal case against paediatric surgeon Professor Peter Beale, whose co-accused anaesthetist Dr Abdulhay Munshi was murdered in an apparent hit in September, has...
Alcoholic anaesthetist jailed for death of mother during caesarean birth
An alcoholic anaesthetist in France who botched an emergency caesarean operation leaving a young British mother dead has been sentenced to three years in...
KZN gynae sued for R5 million over swab in abdomen
A Richard’s Bay woman is suing her gynaecologist in the Durban High Court for R5 million after a medical swab was allegedly forgotten in...
Namibia sets tup task force to consider cannabis legalisation
Namibian Prime Minister Saara Kuugongelwa-Amadhila's office is chairing a task force committee to consult on the regulation and controlled use of cannabis in Namibia.
The...
SIU fails in bid to halt R72m of medical negligence payouts
The Special Investigating Unit (SIU) has lost, with punitive costs, a High Court bid to stop the payout of R72m of damages in four...
First US state decriminalises possession of hard drugs
Several US states have backed referendum measures to legalise cannabis for recreational or medicinal purposes, while voters in Oregon they have gone a step...
SCA rules psychologist can sue over 'malicious’ complaint to HPCSA
After 12 years of legal attrition, the Supreme Court of Appeal has ruled that KwaZulu-Natal psychologist Linda Holden can sue mining giant Assmang over...