HASA Quality Summit 2023: Poster Award Winners
In the months leading up to the Hospital Association of South Africa Quality Summit 2023, alongside the HASA plenary conference, we invited abstracts in value-based care, clinical best practices, and quality improvement projects. Dozens of entries were whittled down to ten by a scientific panel comprising Bonginkosi Shongwe from the Gauteng Department of Health, Winnie […]
Let’s Put Constructive Solutions on the Healthcare Table
by Professor Nicola Theron (Originally published by Business Day on 22nd September 2023) The Hospital Association of SA held its annual conference this September week. It is always a well-attended affair, with senior representatives from healthcare funders, hospitals, practitioners and government. In 2023 the National Health Insurance (NHI) Bill was high on the agenda as […]
Smart Lockers Dispensing Medicines Bring an End to Long Waits at Hospitals Across the Country.
Collect&Go smart lockers are taking off. So much so that somewhere in South Africa a patient will make the 450,000th collection in next two months. Over the last three years, 149,789 patients have used the technology to avoid the usual long queues at many of the country’s medical facilities. It is an uptake that has […]
