Port Elizabeth - Drug shortages and lack of ambulances emerged as some of the most pressing health system issues in the Eastern Cape following a recent meeting of community based organisations.
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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.
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South Africa’s health system has to make a 180 degree turn, away from the dominant curative health system, which is unsustainable and unaffordable, to a health system where prevention is the cornerstone, believes health minister Dr Aaron Motsoaledi.
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Western Cape health MEC Theuns Botha yesterday accused the African National Congress of mismanaging the province while in control, but in the same forum described national health minister Dr Aaron Motsoaledi as “the best news to health services this country has seen for a long time”.
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Public-private partnerships are key to national health insurance, writes Mamphela Ramphele.
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OPINION:The ANC proposed national health insurance (NHI) as seen through the ideological lense by Jasson Urbach of the Free Market Foundation in the Sowetan of 21 October 2009, which he labels a “threat to health,” is nothing but a scare tactic designed to persuade the public and policy makers to abandon the idea of implementing it. Once the government releases the policy proposal for public and stakeholder consultation, it will become clear that the arguments used in such negative campaigns are not well founded.
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Health Minister Dr Aaron Motsoaledi has announced his 25-person team which will advise him on the National Health Insurance plan crafted by the ANC. The team includes among others academics, pharmacists, researchers and the private healthcare industry. Chair of the ANC's NHI task team Dr Olive Shisana will also chair Motsoaledi's committee.
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The latest presentations on NHI from government and other role players from the Board of Healthcare Funders conference. This presentation by Sipho Ngidi, Chairperson Board of Trustees, Bankmed.
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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.
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The latest presentations on NHI from government and other role players from the Board of Healthcare Funders conference. This presentation by BLUM KHAN.
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The latest presentations on NHI from government and other role players from the Board of Healthcare Funders conference. This presentation by DR CLARENCE MINI.
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The latest presentations on NHI from government and other role players from the Board of Healthcare Funders conference. This contribution by Dr Skhumbuzo Ngozwana.
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The latest presentations on NHI from government and other role players from the Board of Healthcare Funders conference. This presentation by Barry Childs.
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Government publishes an ambitious timetable for preparing health institutions for the National health Insurance scheme - but leaves virtually no space for public comment
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An article that appeared in the Business Day, September 4 unpacks the costs attached to implementing the ANC’s recently proposed NHI.
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The ANC has been meeting behind closed doors to shape a new health system for the country. While stakeholders and the public have debated the possible shape of a National Health Insurance scheme discussion among the ANC's task team has been behind closed doors. Health-e was recently leaked the 68-page policy proposal sent by the ANC's NHI task team to the party's Secretary-General Gwede Mantashe.
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In another opinion article on National Health Insurance, Marthie Momberg warns that cynical remarks in the media and outright aggressive language by officials represent a perpetuation of power-play and oppression by people who consider themselves as the vanguard of the new order of liberty.
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The African National Congress has released a rough outline of how it sees the proposed National Health Insurance scheme on its website. But the document is short on detail and has no timelines. The full document is below.
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The issue of the need to establish a national health insurance system is not a new phenomenon. By Dr Olive Shisana.
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There is a crisis of trust in our health care system. Every day yet another group laments their lack of trust in ‘the system’, be they patients, doctors, nurses, wage negotiators or commentators. By Lucy Gilson.
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Democratic Alliance leader Helen Zille enters the National Health Insurance debate in her weekly newsletter South Africa Today. She argues that NHI would deepen the failure of public health and reduce the benefits of private health.
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The South African health system is in deep crisis. We need a major transformation of our health system and we need it now. By Di McIntyre
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KwaZulu-Natal premier and chair of the ANC's health and education committee Dr Zweli Mkhize responds to the NHI debate in this piece which was published on Sunday and also appears in the party's newsletter.
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Health minister Aaron Motsoaledi for the first time shared some of his thoughts on the National Health Insurance plan.
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Fifteen years of failing to address the systemic challenges facing the health of the country lends itself to over compensation in the form of the grand gesture. By Alex van den Heever
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