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Gauteng High Court orders action on oncology backlog

28 Mar 2025
The High Court ordered the Gauteng Health to provide radiation oncology services to cancer patients at Charlotte Maxeke Johannesburg Academic Hospital and Steve Biko Academic Hospital. – Daily Maverick (27 March 2025) This decision followed legal action from the Cancer Alliance, backed by SECTION27, revealing that millions allocated in March 2023 to tackle backlogs had gone unspent due to the Department’s inaction. The Judge ordered that the backlog list has to be updated within 45 days and a progress report is due in three months.
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Medical scheme tax credits to remain in place

27 Mar 2025
n his recent Budget Speech, Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana announced that medical scheme tax credits will remain in place. - The Citizen (27 March 2025).
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Trump administration cuts $2.6bn in vaccine funding

27 Mar 2025
New York Times reported on 26 March that the Trump administration’s reducing US foreign aid funding has affected several vaccine programmes. Among them are Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, and major anti malaria initiatives.
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‘No intent to reduce the powers of provinces over state hospitals’

25 Mar 2025
News24 reported on 25 March that DA MPL Memory Booysen ‘raised critical questions in the provincial legislature regarding the projected effects of the NHI legislation’. The inquiries focused on the financial implications, patient choice in healthcare providers, and the overall quality of healthcare within public hospitals.
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Aspen suspends eye drop manufacturing at Gqeberha

24 Mar 2025
In a letter from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA), Aspen Pharmacare was warned regarding the manufacturing standards of eye drops produced at its facility in Gqeberha. – Business Day (23 March 2024) This follows a September audit revealing that Aspen’s manufacturing processes did not adequately prevent product contamination.
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Research faces funding crisis after US grant cuts

24 Mar 2025
Substantial grant funding cuts from the US National Institutes of Health (NIH). threaten to derail decades of progress in combating HIV/AIDS and tuberculosis (TB), reported Business Day (24March 2025).
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Health departments owe suppliers over R1bn

24 Mar 2025
News24 reported on 21 March that SA’s medical technology sector is facing a severe financial crisis, due to provincial health departments’ delaying payments of over Rbn to suppliers. More than half of this amount is outstanding beyond 120 days.
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Life Healthcare backs collaboration to tackle healthcare crisis

27 Nov 2024
Life Healthcare CEO Peter Wharton-Hood has backed a call for greater collaboration between the government and private healthcare providers to address South Africa’s pressing healthcare challenges. This follows a proposal by Netcare CEO Richard Friedland, who suggested adding healthcare as the fourth pillar in an existing government-business partnership focused on revitalising the economy.
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Discovery Life claims back to pre-Covid levels

19 Apr 2024
“Discovery Life distributed R10.3bn to its clients, a decrease from the R11bn paid the previous year,” reported Business Day (19April 2024)
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Hundreds of websites found selling fake weight-loss drugs

16 Apr 2024
Reuters reported on 15 April that the cybersecurity company BrandShield has shut down over 250 websites selling counterfeit versions of popular drugs used for weight loss and diabetes treatment within the GLP-1 class.
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RAF bid to appeal judgment on claim requirements

06 Dec 2023
On 5 December 2023 the Pretoria High Court rejected the Road Accident Fund’s (RAF) request to reconsider a previous verdict from November, reported Business Day. “The ruling mandated eliminating the stringent new requirements for filing claims outlined in a 2021 board notice.”
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Covid-19 vaccines: ‘Health Department squandered the opportunity’

07 Sep 2023
“Health activists are right to draw attention to this grossly unfair situation. (Covid-19 vaccine deals) But the far bigger scandal is that the Health Department squandered the opportunity after spending an estimated R14-bn on Covid-19 jabs and belatedly filling its warehouses with enough doses to vaccinate the nation” – Business Day (7 September 2023).
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EDITORIAL: Health Minister must halt care crisis

20 Jan 2023

NHI, the government’s plan for universal health coverage, rests heavily on nurse-led care. Yet where these nurses will come from is a mystery. – Editorial (Business Day 20 January 2023).
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Study raises concerns about quality of hospital meals

12 Jan 2023

According to a study of meals served at Cape Town hospitals the food served to hospital patients are way below the health department “ration scale” and patients’ energy requirements, reportedFinancial Mail (12 January 2023).
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Health Minister’s comment provides ‘some comfort to medical scheme industry’

15 Jun 2022

 

Health Minister Joe Phaahla’s comment that NHI will be implemented step-by-step - gradually phasing out the role of medical schemes in the private sector - should provide some comfort to these private healthcare services, according to Business Day (15 June 2022)


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