Food services staff at Chris Hani Baragwanath (CHB) Hospital have claimed that patients are often served rotten and contaminated food and food preparation guidelines and menus designed by dieticians are ignored.
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Medical device companies in Gauteng have made a desperate appeal to Performance Monitoring Minister Collins Chabane “to save us from the Gauteng health department”.
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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).
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OurHealth. – A community in Tshwane is taking charge of their health situation and creating awareness of National Health Insurance (NHI) efforts that are taking place in their area.
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Dr Aaron Motsoaledi rubs his forehead and repositions himself in his chair, leaning forward as if to make sure the point come across clearly: “I will say it upfront. There is no way National Health Insurance (NHI) will function anywhere if the public health system is not functioning well.”
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Story by Thandeka Vinjwa, an OurHealth Citizen Journalist reporting from Lusikisiki in the OR Tambo district of the Eastern Cape.
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CAPE TOWN - Health Director-General Precious Matsoso has launched a strong appeal to the private health sector to come up with good “contracting models” whereby the state could as an example partner with private doctors to deliver services.
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The People's Health Movement South Africa issued a statement and call to action at its first national health assembly (NHA) which preceded the Global People¹s Health Assembly held in Cape Town earlier this month.
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CAPE TOWN – Health minister Dr Aaron Motsoaledi is gearing up for several court battles as he aims to regulate certain aspects of the food and other private sector industries driving poor health.
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CAPE TOWN - There is going to be a “serious fight to get what we want in our health system” and while the National Health Insurance (NHI) Green Paper was steering matters in the right direction health care delivery can’t go from “horrible to wonderful” overnight, health economist Professor Di McIntyre cautioned.
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Health-e's documentary on the National Health Insurance (NHI),focusing on the re-engineering of primary healthcare to meet the health needs of the country, is being broadcast this Thursday on "Cutting Edge", SABC 1 at 9.30pm.
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Health minister Dr Aaron Motsoaledi recently announced the 10 health districts chosen at part of a project to pilot Government’s National Health Insurance (NHI) system.
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Eleven districts across the country have been chosen as launch pads for a future National Health Insurance (NHI) system. One district per province, with the exception of KwaZulu-Natal, from where three districts have been selected, will pilot the NHI system.
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The National Health Department says it is working on building stronger relations with the private sector to address issues of trust. It says it is important for the public and private health sectors to work together to build an effective National Health Insurance (NHI) system.
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CAPE TOWN - South Africa is very good at debating everything and not implementing anything, Dr Olive Shisana, a key advisor on South Africa’s National Health Insurance (NHI) system told an international meeting on Healthcare in Africa today.
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CAPE TOWN - For National Health Insurance (NHI) to be successful the quality of public healthcare must improve “tremendously” and a stop must be put to the pricing of private health “which is running away with us”, health minister Dr Aaron Motsoaledi told the Healthcare in Africa meeting last night (TUES).
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Treasury officials have criticised the health department’s lack of detail about how it aims to transform public hospitals in preparation for the National Health Insurance (NHI) scheme.
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Over the last few months, the Democratic Alliance (DA) has been studying the government’s National Health Insurance (NHI) proposal and have also held a series of workshops with key stakeholders from government, civil society and the healthcare industry. Read their position paper on an alternative to NHI here.
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OPINION: National Health Insurance (NHI). Love it or hate it. It’s coming. With a Green Paper released for public consultation, role players and South Africans at large for the first time have some concrete information as to how the South African healthcare landscape is going to be transformed.
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CAPE TOWN – Health systems experts have welcomed the proposed reform of South Africa’s health sector as “pretty radical” with political will and the “what” part evident, but the “how” part more concerning.
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OPINION: To ensure that the debate on the national health insurance is informed by facts, it is essential to dissect the financial issues.
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OPINION:Misinformed scaremongering seems to have been the order of the day since the release of the National Health Insurance (NHI) Green Paper. South Africans have been subjected to a barrage of reports about how the proposed NHI is unaffordable, how it will increase the cost of labour and will push the economy into recession. by Di McIntyre.
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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.
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This week government finally released the Green Paper on the National Health Insurance system, which seeks to provide better health care for all. The paper will be followed by consultations with various stakeholders and the public over the next three months.
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Health minister Dr Aaron Motsoaledi is determined to revolutionise South Africa’s health system and his short-term sights are set on the quality of healthcare delivery in the public sector and pricing in the private sector.
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