Category: News
1631 Posts
Economics, Financing and Payment Systems, Leadership and Strategic Management in Health, News
Parliament finally ready to vote on sugary drinks tax
JONATHAN JANSEN: Why free university education won’t work
IUDs may cut cervical cancer risk by a third — US systematic review
Human Resources, News, Value in Healthcare
Limpopo Health to cut staff to free up funds
Clinical Governance, Law and Ethics in Health, News
Motsoaledi wants ethical misconduct charges laid with SANC
Guptas’ Dubai medical facility linked to SA health tenders
Climate change ‘will create world’s biggest refugee crisis’
#WoncaAfrica 06 November 2017
Health Education System, Human Resources, News
The role of medical students in health care
WHO and ITU to use digital technology to strengthen public health services in Africa
WHO report signals urgent need for greater political commitment to end tuberculosis
Medication Errors in Paediatrics: A 2017 case-study at a tertiary hospital in Gauteng
WHO QualityRights: transforming mental health services
Apps to help the visually impaired access information: ‘Be My Eyes’
Lancet Global Health: Promoting rational use of antibiotics in China
New HIP Brief on Mass Media Programming in Family Planning
New training course and upcoming webinar (DisasterLit & HIFA)
HIFA Blog: Month in review, September 2017 – Family Planning
WHO: Consultation on the thirteenth General Programme of Work (GPW13)
Tropical Disease Research Implementation Toolkit
*Uncategorized, Clinical Governance, Law and Ethics in Health, News
Ethics wane as audit executives feel loss of independence – report
Economics, Financing and Payment Systems, News
Alarm over NHI inconsistency
Gauteng Health loses landmark case to pay awards in portions
The Tricky Trio: Gauteng Health officials duck and dive
A comparison of physician emigration from Africa to the United States of America between 2005 and 2015
Billions needed to fill health department posts
#WoncaAfrica 30 October 2017
News, Population Health and COPC
New York borrows a health care idea from Africa
WONCA E-Update Friday 27th October 2017
Budget: NHI funding on hold as Gigaba goes to tax committee
*Uncategorized, Health Systems Organisation, News
IN A NUTSHELL: Malusi Gigaba’s bleak medium-term budget defers tough calls
#WoncaAfrica 23 October 2017
#WoncaAfrica 16 October 2017
Sudden deficit means NHLS may no longer be a ‘going concern’
#WoncaAfrica 09 October 2017
WONCA Working Party on Women – Meeting in Chiawelo
NHI legal framework will take ‘twice as long as planned’
#WoncaAfrica 02 October 2017
Stable middle-class in SA may be smaller than thought, study shows
What NDZ stands for
Alternative organisation to compete with BHF
Traditional Birth Attendants 2015
WONCA E-Update Friday 29th September 2017
MEC Gwen Ramokgopa spells out problems with health system
Health Department: ‘Innuendo? What innuendo?’
Smokers with HIV 10x more likely to die from lung cancer
Disguised Uganda minister catches corrupt hospital workers
Cosatu backs NHI but expert says state workers’ benefits will be majorly cut
#WoncaAfrica 18 September 2017
WONCA E-Update Friday 15th September 2017
‘I would buy the HIV home test because it’s easier than being disrespected by nurses’
Moribund ANC’s salvation lies in losing next election
Retention of qualified healthcare workers in rural Senegal: lessons learned from a qualitative study
VACANCY for Emergency Medicine Doctor
Mandela hospital faces funding crisis
#WoncaAfrica 11 September 2017
WONCA E-Update Friday 8th September 2017
Want to know how good your doctor is?
We don’t want no ‘ethics what-what’
A shift in thinking is needed to counter South Africa’s startling rise in poverty
Cosatu opposition to private healthcare ‘will scupper NHI’
#WoncaAfrica 04 September 2017
WONCA News September 2017
What if our care were designed by patients?
The Critical Window of Medical School: Learning to See People Before the Disease
How salaries are eating into provincial public health budgets
THABO MBEKI: The ANC’s insistence that MPs serve the party is a betrayal of the revolution and the Constitution
How the NHI will affect SA’s middle class — and add to the burden on the public health system
#WoncaAfrica 28 August 2017
WONCA E-Update Friday 25th August 2017
An ABFM Video: Why Should I See a Family Doctor?
Public-private partnerships provide evidence for value of co-operation
Public-private partnerships provide evidence for value of co-operation
#WoncaAfrica 21 August 2017
Medical ethics, law and human rights – A South African perspective
WONCA E-Update: Friday 18th August 2017
Saying Goodbye to Lectures in Medical School — Paradigm Shift or Passing Fad?
PATIENT EDUCATION: The 7 Biggest Weight-Loss Mistakes, According to Dietitians
What’s happening inside the ANC, not parliament, is key to why Zuma prevails
WONCA E-Update: Friday 11th August 2017
PATIENT EDUCATION: Adult Obesity Causes & Consequences
Why you should care about the #GuptaLeaks (an international view)
Community-level antibiotic access and use (ABACUS) in low- and middle-income countries: Finding targets for social interventions to improve appropriate antimicrobial use – an observational multi-centre study
PATIENT EDUCATION: Diabetes
Malema might have a point about South African Indian people
Protection extended to buyers of cut-rate medical plans
Less choice, but also smaller bills as NHI powers up
Differences in primary health care use among sub-Saharan African immigrants in Norway: a register-based study
OECD check-up shows SA’s not well
National laboratory strike likely to stretch into its second week
Best chance for SA NHI is to partner with private sector – international experts
