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Board of Healthcare Funders welcomes lift to the HPCSA ban on telemedicine
The Board of Healthcare Funders (BHF) has welcomed the lifting of the Health Professions Council of South Africa (HPCSA) telemedicine ban to broadly permit...
DA's 'Blue Book' of proposed measures to cope with COVID-19 challenges
In a national emergency like this it is encouraging to see South Africans all putting their heads together, regardless of politics, to do whatever...
CoronaFighter WebApp brings SA immediate aid
During this uncertain time, it is all too easy to feel powerless in the fight against the coronavirus pandemic. Now more than ever, many...
SA Drug Policy Initiative calls for repeal of ban on the sale of alcohol and tobacco
The basic principles underlying the South African government’s implementation of a compulsory lockdown during the fight against the COVID-19 viral pandemic are fundamentally sound...
Council for Medical Schemes: COVID-19 lockdown measures
The Council for Medical Schemes (CMS) have issued an important COVID-19 Circular addressing important matters such as Prescribed Minimum Benefits, telemedicine, termination of membership,...
Netcare suspends visiting hours, except in specific special circumstances
Visiting hours at Netcare hospitals have been suspended, except in specific special circumstances, as a further precaution against the spread of COVID-19, Netcare announced....
Call for businesses urgently to divert PPE inventories to national healthcare sector
Business for South Africa’s Public Health Workgroup is calling on all companies, especially those in lockdown, to urgently divert their stocks of personal...
London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine offers free 3-week online course on COVID-19
The London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine is offering a free 3-week online course on COVID-19 and its implications.
It has no...
UWC and NGOs' pamphlet on informal settlements and COVID-19
The Dullah Omar Institute at the University of the Western Cape, with the IBP, SASDI, Planact, Afesis-corplan and the SJC, is asking partners to...
Guidelines for COVID-19 in Africa — World Economic Forum
The Africa Centre for Disease Control (CDC), Resolve to Save Lives and opinion and research company Ipsos have teamed up to support governments to...
Commonwealth develops tracker to help member countries monitor COVID-19
The Commonwealth has developed a coronavirus tracker that shows daily cases in member countries. The tracker collects data from the World Health Organisation (WHO)...
MAFLD: A new name and definition bringing hope for patients with fatty liver disease
An international consensus panel led by researchers from The Westmead Institute for Medical Research (WIMR) has highlighted the need to redefine Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver...
Right to Care: HIV-positive people not on treatment and those with TB at high risk of coronavirus
HIV-positive people and those with tuberculosis who are not on treatment will be at higher risk of worse outcomes if they contract the coronavirus,...
SASOG condemns the violent attack on a Durban gynaecologist
The South African Society of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (SASOG) condemns the recent brutal attack on one of its members, a Durban gynaecologist, in the...
Latest accreditations awarded to healthcare facilities by The Council for Health Service Accreditation of Southern Africa (COHSASA)
The healthcare facilities listed below have been awarded accreditation by The Council for Health Service Accreditation of Southern Africa (COHSASA), a not-for-profit company (NPC)...
Top Pretoria lawyer to lead expansion of Medical Protection Society in South Africa
Medical Protection Society (MPS) has announced that its members in South Africa will soon benefit from a more local service, with cases and clinical...
Signapps delivers free-to-use care co-ordination platform to SA's public health sector
Patient care within the public healthcare sector received a boost this week with the announcement that local health tech company Healthcent will be offering...
Constantia Insurance Group appoints a new CEO
Constantia Insurance Group (Constantia) is pleased to announce the appointment of Peter Todd as CEO. Todd takes over from Volker von Widdern, who has...
Icon Oncology appoints Anthony Pedersen as new head
Anthony Pedersen has been appointed as new CEO to value-based-healthcare company Icon Oncology Holdings. Anthony assumed his role on 1 January 2020 at the...
All about the coronavirus — Norton Rose Fulbright's Healthcare Practice
Norton Rose Fulbright's Healthcare Practice invites you to find out more about the coronavirus, what it is, where it comes from, how do we contain it...
2024 International Obstetrics and Gynaecology Congress to be held in Cape Town
Cape Town has been chosen to host thousands of women’s health professionals from throughout the world for the International Federation of Gynaecology and Obstetrics...
Fintech helps control medical costs with a medical savings card
Between 70 - 80% of employed South Africans cannot afford medical aid and do not always have cash readily available to pay for unexpected...
Cataract surgery under pressure — SA Ophthalmological Society
An estimated 290,000 South Africans could become blind as a result of untreated cataracts, with government facilities in most provinces unable to meet the...
Moms' maternal health is important for children too
As many as one in five new mothers will experience depression just before or after giving birth, at risk to their own health and...
Know your medical benefits, avoid costly co-payments — Ophthalmological Society of SA
Medical Scheme premiums are about to increase by CPI + 5% in January for most medical schemes. These increases are a result of an...
Positive results in Phase 3 study for Allegra/Telfast in patients with allergic rhinitis
The results of the Phase III, single centre, sequential and parallel-group, double-blind, randomized, placebo-controlled FEXPOLSAR study evaluating the efficacy and safety of Allegra®/Telfast® (fexofenadine...
16 Days of Activism: SASOG calls health care professionals to action
In South Africa, a woman is killed every three hours and according to the World Health Organisation, is five times more likely to be...
Crowdfunding supports medical students amid a nationwide doctor shortage
South Africa’s current shortage of doctors and nurses is not a recent phenomenon. The problem of unfilled vacancies in the public sector has plagued...
The Marmite NHI
John Bercow, the speaker of the UK parliament, was recently referred to by a reporter as “the Marmite speaker”, writes Donald Dinnie, consultant...
Latest accreditations awarded to healthcare facilities by The Council for Health Service Accreditation of Southern Africa
The healthcare facilities listed in the table below have been awarded accreditation by The Council for Health Service Accreditation of Southern Africa (COHSASA), a...
Ethiqal: What is indemnity cover and why do doctors need it?
A surprising number of GPs and specialists are unaware of the myriad ways in which they could fall victim to litigation, often believing this...
IRR: 10 days to save healthcare in South Africa
19 November marks the start of a ten-day countdown to save healthcare in South Africa.
On 29 November, public comment on the ANC’s disastrous National...
Global Drug Survey 2020 wants SA participation
Global Drug Survey (GDS) runs the world’s largest survey. Over the last 8 years more than 750,000 people have taken part in our annual,...
Life Healthcare boosts critical services to stroke patients using technology
As South Africa commemorates World Stroke Week (28 October – 3 November), Life Healthcare Group has turned to technology to help improve critical services...
Five golden rules to reduce patient harm or risk
Talk to any doctor who’s faced litigation from a patient or their family, following an adverse event, and they’ll tell you how emotionally exhausting...
SA neurosurgeon appointed to international council of MPS
Dr David Roytowski, a Cape Town based neurosurgeon, has been appointed to the Council of the Medical Protection Society (MPS).
The MPS statement reads:
David graduated...
Midlife: A time of change and reflection — SA Menopause Society
To mark World Menopause Day on the 18th October 2019, the South African Menopause Society writes: It is estimated that by 2030 1.2bn women...
Drug policies in Western Cape are among most overlooked drivers of poverty and inequality
The Western Cape government is flouting an official report that calls for the legal regulation of illicit drugs to help tackle organised crime and...
Colleges of Medicine of SA statement on recent Surgery examinations
The Colleges of Medicine of South Africa (CMSA) is the custodian of the quality of medical care in South Africa and is unique in...
Nominations open for 2019 SA Health Excellence Awards
Following the success of the inaugural South African Health Excellence Awards in 2018, Clinix Health Group in partnership with the South African Clinician Scientists’...