Jill Larkan is the Head of Healthcare Sector Consulting at financial advisory business GTC. Here she responds to Finance Minister Tito Mboweni’s Medium Term Budget Policy Statement presented on Wednesday 24 October 2018. “The finance minister mentioned that R350 million has been put…
One wonders if South Africa will ever restore the healthcare system. It’s crumbling at an alarming rate. So much so, that the South African Committee of Medical Deans (SACoMD) has asked government to tackle the health crisis. But as at September 2018, the…
Forestry workers are an occupational group at high risk of work-related injury. There is a lot more to forestry than just cutting wood. The workers at Mufindi Forestry in Tanzania know this only too well. Conservation, wildlife habitat, erosion control and more come…
Health care fraud costs medical aid members an additional R192 to R410 a month. It is severely hampering efforts to provide affordable and quality health care to all South Africans. Fraud constitutes between 7% and 15% of health plan claims lodged in South…
It’s not only fraud and corruption claims at the SABC; now GEMS discovers fraud among doctors and specialists guilty of fraud too. So one might think that fraud and corruption have become a growth industry. It looks like in South Africa we just…
Health care fraud between medical aid members as well as fraud by doctors and specialists is on the rise. The Government Employees Medical Scheme (GEMS) has revealed rampant fraud among physicians and specialists as well as dodgy practices which are costing medical schemes…
You may have forgotten to make medical aid changes. That’s because 2016 has been fraught with busy-ness. And deadlines seemed to have whizzed past many of us over the past 12 months. “Financial crunch” and “economic crisis” are common phrases used by most…
What is going on with our maternity wards, and have moms-to-be reason to fear? Just recently in Cape Town, just five months after it opened to the public, the luxury maternity hospital, the Origin Family-Centred Hospital, closed after it filed for liquidation. But…
Are cell phones increasing rates of Hospital-Acquired Infections (HAIs) in South Africa? An article in the SA Medical Journal suggests that cell phones in hospitals are a danger to your health! We need more research into whether cell phone usage by healthcare providers…
Johannesburg, 13 June 2016. Great strides have been made in addressing the scourge of malaria in South Africa, yet prevention rather than cure needs to become the priority if the country is to eradicate the infectious disease by 2020. This is according to…