A central issue in driving universal cover under a National Health Insurance (NHI) system, is the redistribution of resources to the poor, whose need for healthcare generally exceeds the resources allocated. This is an important issue, as it is recognised [...]

The long awaited ‘revised’ White Paper describing the proposed National Health Insurance (NHI) for South Africa was finally published by the Minister of Health, Dr Aaron Motsoaledi, on Thursday 29 June 2017 at a press briefing. It has already been [...]

A lot of resources are being devoted to the Competition Commission’s (CC) Healthcare Market Inquiry (HMI) – in the hope of bringing meaningful change to the South African private health sector. Stakeholders in this sector received the first draft Terms [...]