Mediclinic workers say the company is not taking responsibility for a Covid-19 outbreak at a Pretoria hospital
In preparation for a spike in the number of Covid-19 cases, talks between private hospital groups and the national health department on treating patients have been concluded
It was hailed as a revolution in private investment in healthcare in Africa, but almost a decade after it was opened, Lesotho’s only specialist hospital takes up almost a third of the country’s entire health budget. Now, we may finally know why
Forced to work across multiple hospitals, health officials have helped to spread Covid-19 in the private healthcare system
The three Cs: Collusion, competition and corruption. There’ll be a renewed push to safeguard your money when it comes to healthcare, but will it work?
Competition Commission reveals anti-competitive practices in private healthcare
The group now faces scrutiny in South Africa, after its overseas subsidiary was nailed.
South Africans who live in urban areas donate R605 each to charity every year.
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The Hospital Association of South Africa will urge the government to use a multi-payer system to administer national health insurance claims.
Entrenching a values-based ethos at all levels.
Netcare was warned by a top specialist to stop Israeli "tourist transplants" but the company dismissed his advice and hid behind a legal façade.
Netcare on Friday said it was keen to continue with wage negotiations with the Democratic Nursing Association of SA until a solution was found.
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/ 23 November 2010
Eight people, including five doctors, were expected to appear in the Durban Regional Court on Tuesday in connection with illegal organ transplants.
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/ 16 September 2010
Five doctors have been charged with performing illegal kidney transplants, it was reported on Thursday.
Up to 4 000 nurses and administrative workers at Netcare, Africa’s biggest private hospital group, launched a strike over pay on Wednesday.
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/ 23 November 2009
Netcare posted a rise in profit for the year ended September 30, the JSE-listed private hospital group said on Monday.
Durban’s disaster-management team and city officials are busy calculating the cost of damage caused during a heavy downpour on Tuesday night that continued into the early hours of Wednesday. Two oil refineries, hospitals, courts, homes, shacks, railway lines, buildings and roads were affected by the overnight storm.
Search-and-rescue workers saved 20 people trapped in cars and homes by rising water in a heavy overnight downpour in Durban. ”We used a police boat to move many people away from the Island Hotel in Isipingo and we assisted several others who were stuck in cars due to rising flood water,” said Captain Troy Alison.
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/ 15 January 2008
The threat of prosecution at a high-powered meeting with Health Minister Manto Tshabalala-Msimang forced private hospital groups to commit to reconsidering their annual tariff increases last Friday, Business Report said on Tuesday. The Health Department warned hospital groups to comply with the law when charging for anaesthetic gases, or face prosecution.
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/ 10 January 2008
Health Minister Manto Tshabalala-Msimang will meet heads of private hospital groups to discuss drastic hospital tariff increases, the Health Department said on Thursday. The meeting would take place on Friday to discuss the tariff increases from 8% to 33%, ”well above the general inflation rate”, said department spokesperson Charity Bhengu.
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/ 18 December 2007
The JSE was lower at midday on Tuesday, playing catch-up after the public holiday on Monday when there was weakness in global equity markets. By 12.04pm, the JSE’s all-share index had pulled back 2,38%. The gold mining index fell 3,31%, resources lost 3,21% and the platinum mining index gave up 3,16%.
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/ 19 November 2007
Netcare, Africa’s largest private hospital group, increased full-year adjusted headline earnings per share by 27% to 61,8 cents and said on Monday it expected strong growth in its sector to continue. Netcare said total revenue from its South African and United Kingdom operations rose 66,8% to R18,61-billion for the year to end-September.