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Private sector healthcare schemes will still have a role to play when the government implements the National Health Insurance because the treasury cannot finance the system on its own.
BUSINESS

Treasury reassures private sector over National Health Insurance fears

The private healthcare sector and medical aid schemes have warned that, if they are excluded, it would damage the entire system

  • Aarti Bhana
4 min read
Thoneshan Naidoo, Chief Executive Officer of the Health Funders Association (HFA).
BIOLOGICS

Navigating the challenges and opportunities in South Africa’s private healthcare sector

Preventive healthcare is essential to improve health outcomes, lower long-term costs, and boost survival rates

  • Health Funders Association
4 min read
Lee Callakoppen, Bonitas’ principal officer.
BONITAS

Working towards improving South Africa’s healthcare

Bonitas goes above and beyond to overcome local socio-demographic and economic obstacles

  • Rebecca Haynes
3 min read
Unconscionable: Health workers’ right to refuse abortions vs women’s right to choose
CONSTITUTION

Racial bias against black medical practitioners ‘reflects fissures of an unresolved past’

The testimonials of black doctors have given credence to allegations of racial profiling. Of those listed on a Gems blacklist, 94% of general practitioners were black

  • Emma Balfour
7 min read