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If you thought the healthcare sector was generally good at protecting your private health records, you’d be right. They’re especially good at protecting your medical records from yourself. Patient confidentiality, record-keeping and access to information seem to constitute a
Netcare Group, which is South Africa’s biggest private provider of hospital services, has decided to exit (as some wags have noted, Nexit) from Britain, where it has been invested since 2006 in 57 hospitals through General Healthcare Group. If nothing
Government Employees Medical Scheme (GEMS) Media release 29 September 2017 Photo caption: Mbali Mndebele says that her son Monotho has been eating her out of house and home following the successful implantation of his mechanical heart. From Left to right at
CONTESTED LEGACY: MARKING THE 50TH ANNIVERSARY OF PROF CHRIS BARNARD’S PIONEERING HEART TRANSPLANT – Ray Hartle The news that Prof Christiaan Barnard of the University of Cape Town and Groote Schuur Hospital had carried out the
Private hospital group Netcare today (Thursday) revealed its new state-of-the-art hospital facility on Cape Town’s Foreshore to replace the converted downtown commercial block which has housed the Christiaan Barnard Memorial Hospital until now. The R800-million new hospital which will eventually
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