The new department will begin with 50 students and increase this number to about 200 by 2022.
The health department and the Health Professions Council of South Africa must act to protect the medics and patients.
People who smoke and drink too much, don’t exercise and eat unhealthily are likely to suffer from non-communicable diseases, such as heart disease.
Research shows that the way doctors describe medical conditions can affect whether or not a patient demands antibiotics.
For me, the pretender to aristocracy, all this human traffic translates into downright invasion of privacy. But alas, not so with Tebogo.
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/ 7 November 2014
Doctors and nurses don’t need a miracle drug to prevent the massive number of premature deaths.
Scientists make a living and working organ from cells reprogrammed outside the body.
GF Jooste Hospital was a beacon of hope. It should have been renovated, not closed.
Maria Phalime was passionate about being a doctor, but quit because of the pressures of the job.
Medical interns are leading the battle to reduce the dangerously overlong working hours that compromise the safety of patients.
Clinical associates are changing the medical sector by freeing up doctors to do more.
Patient Jasper Hoon is critical about the low maximum sanction the council can administer on doctors who provide insufficient care.
South Africa has the means and opportunity to keep its healthcare professionals.
Politicians and industry experts say that partnerships between the public and private sectors may solve the doctor and nurse shortages in SA.
Despite an ongoing probe into alleged misconduct, he’s back at Messina Hospital – as chief executive.
A man has taken two specialists to task for a "misdiagnosis" that nearly cost him his foot
A simple practice that benefits all newborns is also bringing down mortality rates.
Records show that Musina hospital boss Allick Dube was suspended for negligence in Tennessee
GPs with their own practices are interested in working for the NHI scheme – with caveats.
In the first of a two-part series about the NHI, Mia Malan reports on state plans to change the rigid reimbursement formula for private doctors.
For doctors like South African Venessa Naidoo, working in war-torn Syria means providing life-saving treatment to the needy is a daily struggle.
The <em>Mail & Guardian</em> asked readers what they think of doctors’ tariffs in a survey on M&G Online.
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/ 14 February 2013
Mia Malan speaks to the health minister and others in the healthcare sector about the
guideline tariffs
Health professionals are finding the state’s planned guidelines for fees a bitter pill to swallow.
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/ 14 February 2013
Mia Malan speaks to the health minister and others in the healthcare sector about the guideline tariffs.
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/ 11 October 2011
The health department has launched a human resource plan to deal with the public sector’s severe lack of doctors and nurses.
The shortage of doctors will be the topic of <i>Bonitas House Call</i> on August 13 at 9am on SABC2.
About 200 doctors converged on the Union Buildings in Pretoria on Wednesday in protest against poor security at hospitals.
Popcru is disgusted by the killing of a doctor at the Middleburg Hospital in Mpumalanga, a spokesperson has said.
Zimbabwe’s state doctors have gone on strike to press for an increase in wages and allowances, a health workers’ union said on Wednesday.
John Robbie rarely says anything I want to write home about on his morning shows, which I listen to religiously.
The toyi-toyiing ”helps me to get rid of my frustrations at the hospital”, says one doctor.