OurHealth. - A group of grade eight learners from the Paul Roux Intermediate School in the town of Paul Roux in the Free State were visited by a nurse as part of the Integrated School Health Programme of the National Health Insurance (NHI).
Many fear that the NHI will lead to a mass exodus of healthcare workers.
Health-e will for the next few weeks publish opinion pieces from various stakeholders and experts on National Health Insurance. Anso Thom sets the scene with the first contribution with Dr Jonathan Broomberg, Discovery Health's head of strategy and risk management.
There is a risk that the Health Market Inquiry’s recommendations on the private health sector will be disregarded by government as they do not align with the National Health Insurance (NHI) scheme, warn health activists. But are the two mutually exclusive? And what are the government’s plans? HEALTH-E NEWS’ Amy Green finds out.
South Africans will for the first time know how Government is planning to introduce the long-awaited National Health Insurance (NHI) scheme when it is released after Wednesday'€™s Cabinet meeting.
The National Health Insurance (NHI) is likely to revolutionise health funding. This could include new, business-like approaches to health and new roles for medical aids in the post-NHI world, according to latest South African Health Review released last night.
In 1994, when the African National Congress (ANC) came to power, it outlined in its election manifesto equitable access to healthcare, envisaged by an integrated, equitable and comprehensive health system. In 2011, the NHI journey started when the NHI Green…
OPINION: I am visiting the University of Cape Town from Australia '€“ this is the fourth consecutive year I have come to this physically beautiful city '€“ and I see in the media recently all sorts of comments on the proposed NHI. These comments are all almost hostile. But then these comments do not come from all sorts of people. By Gavin Mooney.
There has been a lot of talk about health system reform, including the National Health Insurance (NHI) system. But the voices of ordinary people who use the government clinics and hospitals every day are missing. The Black Sash, University of Cape Town Health Economics Unit and Health-e are hosting the first provincial health conference in Port Elizabeth to make sure the voices of communities are heard.
Health-e News Service conducted an informal survey of the state of 17 schools'€™ toilets that fall within four of the National Health Insurance (NHI) pilot districts. Read how each district performed.
Discovery Health believes that the National Health Insurance (NHI) Bill confirms that medical schemes will continue to exist alongside the NHI system
OPINION: Dr Jonathan Broomberg shares his views on the debate around the ANC's plans to introduce NHI. Broomberg is the Head of Strategy and Risk Management at Discovery Health
The latest presentations on NHI from government and other role players from the Board of Healthcare Funders conference. This presentation by JOE SEOLOANE, curator of Pro Sano Medical Scheme.
Ground-breaking research aimed at using short courses of anti-retroviral drugs to boost the long-term immunity of babies with HIV is due to begin within weeks at St Mary's Hospital in Marianhill, outside Durban.
Ahead of next week'€™s launch of the National Health Insurance (NHI) proposal, Health Minister, Dr Aaron Motsoaledi, made several announcements on Thursday, including a plan to employ hospital managers who will ensure better health outcomes.
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