by Chandré Blignaut | Sep 18, 2019 | Featured, News, SAFP, SAJAA, SAJGO, WHSA
Will NHI worsen SA’s medico-legal nightmare? How a medical malpractice public/private partnership can reduce State’s medico-legal exposure and improve health care outcomes. With the draft NHI bill silent on an estimated R98 billion in state medico-legal claims, public...
by Chandré Blignaut | Sep 10, 2019 | Featured, JEMDSA, News, PNT, SAFP, SAJAA, SAPJ, WHSA
Medical industry duty of care: onerous, but necessary A recent study on the state of medical waste management in rural South Africa has revealed that areas of the country are underprepared to deal with multiple forms of potentially-hazardous materials. If left...
by Chandré Blignaut | Aug 30, 2019 | Featured, JEMDSA, News, SAFP, SAJAA, SAJCN, SAJGO, SAJS, WHSA
Systems harm patients more than doctors Hospital Association of South Africa A culture of “name, blame and shame,” in medicine drastically reduces the potential for system changes to improve patient safety, the Hospital Association of South Africa’s...
by Chandré Blignaut | Aug 5, 2019 | Featured, News, PNT, SAFP, SAJAA, SAJGO, SAJS, WHSA
Indemnity outfit boosts State surgical rescues Johannesburg – A local insurer of healthcare professionals, EthiQal, has donated R240 000 to Operation Healing Hands, OHH, a non-profit-organisation set up to relieve the overwhelming burden of surgery in the public...
by Chantelle Janse van Rensburg | Nov 14, 2017 | AJCOR, Featured, JEMDSA, Journals, News, PNT, SAFP, SAJAA, SAJCN, SAJGO, SAJID, SAJS, SAPJ, WHSA
INNOVATIVE PHARMA COMPANY LAUNCHES NEW ‘BUG WISE’ APP TO CURB ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE Antibiotic resistance (ABR) has increased worldwide, largely because of the overuse and misuse of antibiotic medications, but if left unchecked, experts fear it could claim up to 10...
