Mortality claims statistics from the insurance industry show that more than a million policyholders died in the most recent one-year measurement period, which the sector...News Release
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...
July 29th, 2020It is difficult to accept government meddling in personal lifestyles, even when decisions are based on solid evidence, writes MedicalBrief. The outrage that followed the...
The Board of Healthcare Funders (BHF) and its members in the healthcare funding space have requested members of medical schemes to proceed with caution in scheduling...South Africa
Activists have submitted a memorandum to Treasury, calling for an increase on the Health Promotion Levy from 11% to 20%.
Health-e News reports that the levy, also...Weekly Roundup
In an era of gross financial mismanagement, corruption and budget cuts, what does it take to get an ‘unqualified audit with no findings’? Mark Heywood writes in...
November 7th, 2018A study has found that black women in South Africa are almost six times more likely to die of cervical cancer than white women and that the five-year survival rates of...
The infant mortality rate at the Pelonomi Regional Hospital in Bloemfontein, Free State, is almost three times higher than the national average – and many of these...South Africa
The number of medical-scheme beneficiaries remained virtually unchanged for the past seven years with high unemployment and lack of government intervention said to be...South Africa
A proposal to train and employ 50,000 new nurses will be one of the flagship projects on the table at the government's Jobs Summit being held this week. Business Day...
