But an all women fintech startup is offering affordable and compassionate healthcare alternatives to SA’s medical schemes. Alignd is the brainchild of Dr Linda Holding, a palliative-trained doctor with 20 years of clinical risk management experience; Victoria Barr, a healthcare economist, and senior director at FTI Consulting; and Shivani Ranchod, a healthcare actuary and academic…
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Current medical aid models for end-of-life care will pay for costly in-hospital care but won’t pay for home-based care
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Cancer is one of the silent killers in the world, starting colorectal cancer screening at 45 would avert deaths
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A Stanford-led study found that increasing the participation of older adults in colorectal cancer screening would help prevent more deaths than expanding testing to people in their 40s. Starting routine colorectal cancer screening at age 45 rather than 50 would decrease US cancer deaths by as much as 11,100 over five years, according to a..
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The Hawks are investigating an alleged fraudulent payout of more than R110-million by the Eastern Cape health department
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The money, desperately needed by hospitals and clinics, apparently found its way into the pockets of senior ANC officials in the province. Former infrastructure boss at the department, Mlamli Tuswa, says his attempts to raise the alarm about this irregular payment were ignored. In an affidavit, submitted to the Hawks’ anti-corruption task team in East..
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The department of health is now really starting to falling apart:- Port Elizabeth’s Provincial Hospital’s last lift to theater broken
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Surgeries had to be delayed at Port Elizabeth’s Provincial Hospital after the only operational lift – to the theatre complex – was declared unsafe by the department of labour. Staff also struggled to get food and medicine to patients. The hospital’s theatres are on the first floor, making an operational lift essential. Eastern Cape department..
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Durban man, Mr. Balgobind, is in a coma and his wife were told to leave the private hospital over bill query
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Durban – A MANAGER at a private hospital allegedly demanded that a gravely ill patient, who has been comatose since December, be expelled from the facility because his family questioned the medical bill they were ordered to pay. Durban businessman Prem Balgobind had undergone quadruple heart bypass surgery at Arwyp Medical Centre, a private hospital..
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Dinge begin nou regtig inmekaar val in ons staatshospitale, hulle voel ‘n veer vir Blanke pasiënte:- ‘My ma sou hiér doodgegaan het’
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Die suster het glo vir haar gesê sy kan wag tot 21:30 wanneer hulle die medikasie uitdeel. Witbank Hospitaal is deesdae baie in die nuus – met goeie rede. Na twee klagtes in verlede week se WITBANK NUUS het nog ’n voorval aan die lig gekom van ’n vrou wat gaan hulp soek het by..
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The scourge of crime in Cape Town knows no bounds, Kensington Day Hospital closed indefinitely after robbery
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Kensington Day Hospital in Cape Town, has been closed indefinitely, after computers and other equipment were stolen this past weekend. As reported by EWN, the day hospital was vandalized and police believe that the burglars also made it off with medication too. Why is Kensington Day Hospital closed? According to police spokesperson, Sergeant Noloyiso Rwexana,..
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‘Here is our tax money’: Video shows ‘new’ hospital beds in disuse at Chris Hani Baragwanath hospital in Johannesburg
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A video going around on social media shows allegedly brand new hospital beds lying in the sun, exposed to the elements outside the Chris Hani Baragwanath hospital in Johannesburg. The man filming the video narrates in Afrikaans and asks: “If you have ever wondered where our taxes go? Here is our tax money. [Hospital] beds..
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Why is it so important to fix primary healthcare so crucial to making South Africa healthier
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By some measures – healthy life expectancy, obesity, and depression, among others – South Africa is the unhealthiest country on earth. That’s a sobering fact to consider. How has the country got here? To what extent can its unenviable position be regarded as a failure of primary healthcare? Primary healthcare can refer to the care..
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The Cofi Bill (The Conduct of Financial Institutions Bill) brings down regulatory siloes for medical scheme customers
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Healthcare sector stakeholders have long advocated for a single regulator, believing that the current dual framework creates a regulatory arbitrage not conducive to offering the consumer maximum protection. Just as the public and private healthcare sectors need to work together for South Africa to achieve universal healthcare, the same applies to government departments and regulators…
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