Category: SA Health General
191 Posts
State can be sued for failing foreign nationals, lawyers group says
New injectable HIV drug could be much cheaper, study shows
Economics, Financing and Payment Systems, Human Resources, SA Health General
Top medical aid schemes guilty of racial bias, inquiry finds
Human Resources, SA Health General
Probe into Clinical Associates’ status, finally
Risks and rewards of hospital at home
Doctors slam trade union as working conditions in health sector deteriorate
Exorbitant security costs for Gauteng Health flagged
Minister rejects LCBO report, but punts policy shift
SA’s medical aid members at tipping point, AfriForum warns
Health Department plans medical strategy to tackle heroin crisis
Randburg Clinic Crisis: Overcrowding and One Doctor for 400 Patients Highlight Healthcare Struggles
Global Justice, SA Health General, SA NHI
MTBPS: South Africa’s tighter budget demands stricter healthcare priorities
Bigger role ahead for family physicians in SA, at last
Troubling ethics and morals of medical schemes
Ramaphosa to sign new NHI health compact – without doctors and businesses on board
Medical aid price pain in South Africa – with worse to come
Human Resources, SA Health General
They arrived in Cuba with a suitcase and returned to SA as doctors. We followed 5 to see where they work today
South Africa’s healthcare system: eight steps that would get it on the right track
Unicef report warns that 25% of SA’s toddlers face severe food poverty
Gauteng pays millions for new drug rehab centre, defunds existing NPOs
HIV, Human Resources, Mental Health, Mother & Child, NCDs, SA Health General, SA NHI, Universal Health Coverage
Three health reforms the new government must prioritise for SA
Human Resources, Primary health care, SA Health General
Doctor Posts in Johannesburg PHC
Africa, Health Education System, SA Health General
What do medical students and their clinical preceptors understand by primary health care in South Africa? A qualitative study
Mental Health, SA Health General
Nurses will be able to prescribe anti-depressants in SA’s new action plan
Ivermectin efficacy finally proven in ‘gold-standard’ RCT – Prof Colleen Aldous
Human Resources, SA Health General
Not our job to place young doctors, says Health Department
Administration, SA Health General
Health facilities under strain with no end soon to rolling power cuts
Human Resources, SA Health General
More clinical associates are needed to transform healthcare in SA — we should support them
Quality and Service Improvement, SA Health General
Family physicians can do a lot to save SA’s ailing public health system
Just do it! Social compacts rely on far too much consensus
SA has changed tack on tackling Covid-19: Why it makes sense
Advice to Government: SA can get through the Covid-19 maze ahead of the festive season – here’s how
Junior doctors ‘tired’ of placement travails
Patients bear the brunt of rude, indifferent service from Mthatha clinics
Quality and Service Improvement, Research, SA Health General
Alternative mechanisms for delivery of medication in South Africa
Africa, HIV, Research, SA Health General
Spatial distribution and correlates of HIV prevalence in South Africa
Africa, Research, SA Health General
Uncontrolled hypertension among patients with comorbidities in sub-Saharan Africa
Madiba Day | SAMA thanks all Healthcare workers and the fallen Heroes
Mess-ups mean Gauteng has no money left to fight third wave
A warning from health professionals: ‘Gauteng will look like India’
What is the third wave like in South Africa?
Potential to save lives: An intensive care doctor argues for ‘compassionate use’ of ivermectin for Covid-19
Adjusted Level 3 Nationwide Lockdown
Global Health, Pandemics, SA Health General
BBC: SA variant more transmissible than UK variant of COVID-19
Nationwide lockdown and the new Covid-19 variant?
Patient information on COVID-19
Economics, Financing and Payment Systems, Pandemics, SA Health General
Five things the mid-term budget tells us about the SA healthcare system
Human Resources, Population Health and COPC, Primary health care, SA Health General
National guidance and district-level practices in the supervision of community health workers in South Africa: A qualitative study
SAHR 2021 call for abstracts: Health sector responses to covid-19
Pandemics, Population Health and COPC, SA Health General
COVID-19 Health is In Our Hands Awareness
#Masks4allinAfrica, Pandemics, SA Health General
Masks – Who wears them and Why it matters
Ramaphosa takes South Africa out of hard lockdown, lifts cigarette and alcohol ban
Human Resources, Pandemics, SA Health General
SA’s nurses: Poorly trained, in poor health, and living in fear
Inside Nasrec Field Hospital’s Red Zone
All-cause deaths in SA as at 28th July 2020
Pandemics, SA Health General, Webinars
Webinar: COVID-19 in Africa – Hospitals, SA, 7th August
Nervous COVID-19 patients want home care rather than hospital admission
Health Systems Organisation, SA Health General
Why rural South Africans don’t get emergency medical care in time
Jhb City level responses to drug use and HIV in the context of COVID-19
Inappropriate for Jacob Zuma to headline Andrew Mlangeni’s memorial – ANC stalwarts
Why the models got the Western Cape so wrong | COVID-19 Lockdown
CMSA urges govt to reconsider new taxi loading rules | COVID Lockdown
Human Resources, SA Health General
Foreign-trained doctors rue not able to register to help fight COVID-19
COVID-19 Nationwide Lockdown: Ramaphosa declares schools will shut for 4 weeks – but Grade 12s get 1 week’s break
Zweli Mkhize plays down discrepancy in reported deaths
Pandemics, SA Health General, Webinars
Webinar: COVID-19 in Africa – Eastern Cape, SA, 31st July
Corruption wreaks healthcare services
Mamokgethi Phakeng has shaken the edifice(s) of white social certification
South Africa endures coronavirus crisis as health services collapse – BBC News
Taxi capacity rules ‘justified and supported by science’, says health MEC
SA MRC Reports on Deaths in SA as at 7th July 2020
Coronavirus chaos: BBC goes inside SA’s ‘hospitals of horrors’
Groote Schuur medic describes her day in a Covid-19 ward
NASREC
Covid-19: Western Cape and Gauteng prepare for the peak
State patients in private hospitals: What’s the deal?
Gauteng’s Nasrec Field Hospital gets first patients after life-saving donations
Pandemics, Primary health care, SA Health General
Covid-19: Are SA’s district hospitals government’s coronavirus blindspot?
COVID-19: Seven lessons from the Western Cape
Johannesburg doctors desperate
Report on Weekly Deaths in South Africa
Pandemics, Patient Advice, SA Health General
Distance, Dose, Dispersion: Experts’ guide on Covid-19 risks in South Africa and how to manage them
Africa, Pandemics, SA Health General, Webinars
Webinar: COVID-19 in Africa – private sector in Jhb, South Africa, 10th July (6pm)
Covid-19 explodes in Gauteng, Dlamini Zuma must make Lockdown 2.0 decision
Educational Resource, Pandemics, SA Health General
HOW TO PROVIDE RESPIRATORY SUPPORT FOR COVID-19 PATIENTS
Webinar: Clinical Collaboration in the Time of COVID-19
Deaths in SA rise significantly higher than predicted – SAMRC report
Economics, Financing and Payment Systems, Pandemics, SA Health General
South Africa sets aside more money for Covid-19 but lacks spending strategy
Letter from a doctor: Rats, dirty laundry and finding hope in Eastern Cape hospital
Eastern Cape healthcare has collapsed: ‘Sick people are fighting each other’
Africa, Pandemics, SA Health General, Webinars
Webinar: COVID-19 in Africa – Cape Town, South Africa, 3rd July
Gauteng’s active Covid-19 cases have doubled to over 21 000 in a week, deaths too
Human Resources, SA Health General, Webinars
Webinar: Future of nursing in SA
Pandemics, Primary health care, SA Health General, Universal Health Coverage
Covid-19 surge: Investing heavily in ICU capacity is not the only option
COVID-19 Promising Practices: SA
COVID focus must stress prevention and good, early treatment
Does anyone remember Life Esidimeni? Of short memories, public service and truth telling
Pandemics, Primary health care, SA Health General
