President won’t be signing off complete NHI Bill…
The National Health Insurance Bill (B) will not be signed off by the President in its entirety once it has been approved by the National Council of...
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Ironies prevail in ‘low cost’ private health cover, ‘uncovered’ utilisation
The medical schemes regulator appears reluctant to allow private medical schemes to enter the primary healthcare space in the form of low-cost...
Roy Watson
Aug 7, 2023
Top up cover? Complementary cover? Confusion reigns…
Among the more debatable topics arising out of the NHI Bill, now on its way to the National Council of Provinces for pre-Presidential approval is...
Roy Watson
Jul 28, 2023
NHI – what about patent laws and access to affordable medicines….?
Representatives of two major health advocacy groups, Medicins Sans Frontieres (MSF – Doctors without Borders), and Section 27, have expressed almost...
Roy Watson
Jul 17, 2023
Minister’s ‘overweening power’ in NHI Bill could be challenged
A major discussion point arising out of the proposed National Health Insurance (NHI) Bill has been the “overweening” power the Bill grants the...
Roy Watson
Jul 12, 2023
Court will hear NHI complaints, ‘but could take a little while’
Participating in democracy is a constitutional right, but this has not been observed in the processing of the National Health Insurance (NHI) Bill.
Roy Watson
Jul 11, 2023
Call for private sector investment in Africa’s New Public Health Order
The private sector should be the first to be targeted, or mobilised, Dr Nicaise Ndembi, Senior Advisor to the Africa Centres for Disease Control and...
Roy Watson
Jul 7, 2023
African health system efficiencies: ‘it takes two to tango!’
The private sector has already contributed significantly to health systems on the African continent, Dr Amit Thakker, executive chairman of Africa...
Roy Watson
Jul 6, 2023
Summit prompts call for national ‘telehealth, smarthealth’ strategy
The profusion of digital health innovations, which continue to grow in number and in ingenuity, is giving medical practitioners access to tools and...
Roy Watson
Jun 26, 2023
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