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International Nursing Day: Nursing from the heart
Nursing in a paediatric intensive care unit (ICU) is both physically and emotionally demanding. This is a vocation that requires individual...
Staff Writer
May 12, 2023
International Nurses Day: “Our Nurses, Our Future"
As we celebrate International Nurses Day on 12 May, it is also a day to reflect on the many challenges nurses are facing in many countries, including...
Marietjie Van den Berg
May 12, 2023
HPCSA appoints new Registrar/CEO, hopes to bring stability in the council
Health Minister, Joe Phaahla has appointed former MEC of Health in Northwest, Dr Magome Masike as the new Registrar/CEO of the Health Professions...
Marietjie Van den Berg
May 10, 2023
Supporting anxious ICU patients and families: Lessons from Covid-19
A ground-breaking counselling and communication model at the Life Vincent Palloti Hospital ICU in Cape Town in which eight counsellors supported 300...
Chris Bateman
May 8, 2023
World AS Day: Living with chronic pain: axSpA affects thousands of undiagnosed South Africans
World Axial Spondyloarthritis (AS) Day is observed globally on the first Saturday of May – which falls on the 6 May this year, to raise awareness...
Staff Writer
May 5, 2023
SA should take better care of its dying – experts
Palliative care practitioners country-wide this week made a collective appeal to the Presidential Health Summit to take urgent action in budgeting...
Chris Bateman
May 5, 2023
Second Presidential Health Summit: SA needs another Health Compact
Health Minister, Dr Joe Phaala has called for a second Health Compact to be signed between the state and key stakeholders in health to ensure...
Marietjie Van den Berg
May 5, 2023
OP-ED: How Covid-19 drove pandemic readiness in SA healthcare
Technology played a significant role as the great enabler during the COVID-19 pandemic, helping people adapt to social distancing and lockdown, while...
Minette Barkhuysen, General Manager: Core Enterprise Systems at Mediclinic Southern Africa
May 4, 2023
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