Shifting Toward Sustainable Reimbursement Models in South Africa’s Healthcare Sector
Escaping Fee-for-Service: Pathways to Sustainable Reimbursement Models
The Council for Medical Schemes (CMS) Annual Report 2024/25 undersc...
Antidepressant Side Effects: New Insights on Cardiometabolic Health Risks
Antidepressant side effects vary widely among medications, impacting heart health, weight, and metabolism in distinct ways. If you're wondering how these drugs affect your body, a recent systematic review and network meta-analysis in The Lancet shows key differences. For ex...
China Medical Research Challenges: Pushing Boundaries Amid Ethical and Quality Concerns
China's medical research challenges are starkly evident in Kamran Abbasi's editorial in The BMJ, which portrays the country's medical research landscape as a dual-edged sword. It highlights rapid modernization, massive investments in infrastructure and cohort studies, and i...
Medical Schemes Affordability Crisis: Insights from the CMS Annual Report 2024/25
The CMS Annual Report 2024/25 highlights significant medical schemes affordability challenges in South Africa, where relevant healthcare expenditure per beneficiary surged by 8.70% year-on-year, far outpacing both contribution growth and general inflation. Solvency ratios have declined for three ...
Barriers to African Pharmaceutical Growth: Navigating Regulatory and Procurement Challenges
African Pharmaceutical Growth
African Pharmaceutical Growth remains stifled by significant barriers, as highlighted in a recent plenary address at the Conference on Public Health in Africa (CPHIA) 2025 (reported by Health Policy Watch). Dr. Stavros Nicolaou, group senior executive for s...
Aligning Medical Schemes with National Health Insurance South Africa
The National Health Insurance initiative in South Africa is advancing toward universal health coverage, and the recent CMS Annual Report 2024/25 highlighted the regulator's pivotal role in supporting this framework by integ...
