EXCLUSIVE: Medical schemes losing out on risk transfer contracts

The current regulatory environment is hindering new technologies such as AI-assisted diagnoses and robotics

The city has had to make emergency requisitions to buy its own supplies

The Eastern Cape health department faced a massive R8.4bn spike in medical negligence claims in 2017/2018

Junior who lacked authority to introduce changes said to have issued the directive to provincial departments

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Sipho Kabane has been appointed CEO and registrar of the Council for Medical Schemes

This is likely to delay work on the Medical Schemes Amendment Bill, which will be submitted to parliament only after the HMI’s final report has been published

After missing a number of deadlines, devising a health compact as a precursor to the ANC's promised NHI, ‘still needs more time’

The CMS has served Mmatli with a letter of precautionary suspension, pending the outcome of investigations into ‘serious acts of misconduct’

However, in his Sona, Ramaphosa did not say the contested bill had been approved by the cabinet, suggesting further work may still be done on it before it is ...

‘It is not often that an entire new global industry emerges from nothing to become a $50bn-plus sector, as cannabis is predicted to’ 

Section 27 says the government has become fixated on the NHI Bill at the expense of fixing the health system