Nominations are called for suitable candidates with knowledge and experience in financial investments, investment related products, investment management and reporting to serve in the Investment Committee of GEMS. The Investment Committee of the Government Employees Medical Scheme was established by the GEMS Board of Trustees of GEMS in 2014 to assist the Board in fulfilling its responsibilities related to the Scheme's investment activities. Click here for more information.
GEMS requires the services of three suitably qualified and experienced service providers for the rendering of forensic investigation services to GEMS. A compulsory briefing session will be held on Tuesday, 11 March 2014 from 11h00 to 12h00. Prospective bidders are required to notify Siziwe Kontsiwe by email at [email protected] by 12h00 before Monday, 10 March 2014, confirming attendance to briefing session. Closing date for submissions is Thursday, 03 April 2014 at 11h00.
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To avoid delays in the processing of claims for all medical appliances in future, your healthcare provider does not need to submit a motivation and/or additional supporting documents for the majority of products in certain categories of appliances.
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The re-evaluation of budgets to accommodate interest rate hikes and other inflationary increases has seen medical insurers position themselves to attract those who cannot afford medical aid cover. One example is Essential Med, which provides cover for hospitalisation in the event of an accident plus disability and death cover for R156 a month for a single person.
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Paramedic training is set to change significantly from the end of the year, potentially leaving some careers in limbo and emergency services short of staff. Until now, more than 80 percent of paramedics have qualified via the short-course method, doing their training, then working in between to progress up the qualification ladder.
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For many years, non-communicable diseases (NCDs) like these were associated with the wealthy but not any more in a trend that is likely to get worse, according to Bob Mash, professor of family medicine and primary care at Stellenbosch University's Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences.
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Childbirths as a proportion of the total South African population are at a record low for the first time in more than two decades, according to the SA Institute of Race Relations.
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American physicians, worried about changes in the healthcare market, are streaming into salaried jobs with hospitals. Though the shift from private practice has been most pronounced in primary care, specialists are following. Last year, 64 percent of job offers filled through Merritt Hawkins, one of the nation's leading physician placement firms, involved hospital employment, compared with only 11 percent in 2004.
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Plans to implement screening programmes and regional treatment initiatives to combat tuberculosis with the same fervour as HIV/AIDS are in the pipeline, according to Health Minister Aaron Motsoaledi. He said the government wanted to put up programmes to deal with TB once and for all, and wanted to adopt the same strategy used over the past five years to turn the country around in terms of HIV and AIDS.
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The Department of Health is to launch a specialised institute of regulatory medicine in April as one of the measures to improve the capacity of the Medicines Control Council (MCC) to approve new drugs and clinical trials, according to health director-general Precious Matsoso. The pharmaceutical industry has consistently complained that it takes far longer to register new medicines in SA than in countries such as the UK and US.
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