Reflections on HASA Conference 2018, Looking Ahead to 2019
Delegates to the Hospital Association of South Africa Conference that ended on the 3rd October at The Forum in Bryanston and who attended the event’s Gala Dinner entered the La Toscana, Montecasino venue to be confronted by a scene from Renaissance Italy (pictured above), complete with period-correctly attired usher, artists in full swing, and a […]
Recent Reports: Office of Healthcare Standards Compliance; Council for Medical Schemes
Two recent and important reports have just been published: the 2017/18 Office of Healthcare Standards Compliance Annual Report, and the Council for Medical Schemes Annual Report. You should be able to access them from their respective web sites, or you can download them by clicking of the following links: OHSC_Annual_Report_2017_2018 (1) and CMS_AR_20172018_LowREs. You may also be interested […]
Private, Public Collaboration ‘Key to Address Health Disparities’
Out of 55.5 million people, 40 million South Africans – among them the elderly with no income, children, the unemployed and unemployable – are solely dependent on the public healthcare system, says Netcare Limited director for strategy and health policy Melanie da Costa. Addressing the Forbes-Philips Future of Health Summit on the state of healthcare […]
Diabetes to be SAs Leading Killer by 2040, Study Shows
South Africans are likely to live, on average, seven years longer in 2040 than they do now, but the country will see only modest improvement in its global ranking as longevity increases worldwide, according to a study published in the Lancet on Wednesday . SA had an average life expectancy of 62.4 years in 2016, and ranked […]
Big Hospitals Reject Break-Up Idea
SA’s largest hospital groups have rejected proposals that they be broken up in order to lower health-care costs, calling the idea drastic and “perhaps unconstitutional”. In a bid to aid transformation and enhance competition in the market, the Health Market Inquiry, in its provisional report, has recommended divestiture and a moratorium on new licences for […]
Commission’s Private Healthcare Data Flawed — Lawyer
The Competition Commission’s preliminary report into SA‘s private healthcare industry has come under fire at the Hospital Association’s annual conference, with a lawyer describing the data as flawed and out of date. According to a Beeld report, Anthony Norton, of law firm Nortons Inc, said in his presentation the findings and recommendations of the commission should be reviewed as there were major […]