The Council of Medical Schemes (CMS) is the regulatory body of all medical schemes registered in South Africa. We are inviting you to participate in a survey, to determine the level of awareness of the services offered by the CMS to members of medical schemes in South Africa. Read more >
We are introducing underwriting to certain member categories as from 1 October 2016. Read more>
An article published in Business Day, Monday, 22 August 2016, which questions the financial sustainability of GEMS, is totally misleading and has caused unnecessary concern for the members of the Scheme, as well as for healthcare service providers and other stakeholders. Read more>
The extension and development of medical schools at two universities is expected to alleviate the shortage of doctors in the country. Read more>
Global health experts want world leaders to set country-level limits on the use of antibiotics to combat a looming crisis of drug-resistant "superbugs." Read more>
The rise of "personalised" or "precision" medicine is revolutionising the way doctors and pharmaceutical companies approach disease. Using genetic sequencing, medical professionals are now able to separate people with similar symptoms into far narrower groups and target medicines at them. Read more>
Britain is set to tax companies which sell sugary soft drinks and invest that money in health programmes for school children, part of a long-awaited strategy to curb childhood obesity that critics say is too weak. Read more>
The Council for Medical Schemes is taking aim at scheme administrators it says are confusing consumers by sharing branding with the schemes they administer. Read more>
AN apparent discrepancy in figures from a provincial authority has prompted a politician to ask what happened to about 400 mentally ill patients who should have been placed in institutions. Read more>
The African continent has the ignominious distinction of housing the seven countries in which the highest number of children die before their fifth birthday, according to the United Nations Inter-Agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation. Read more>
Despite the shortage of nurses and other staff at Charlotte Maxeke Johannesburg Academic Hospital, Gauteng's health department insists that the facility is capable of rendering services to the public. Read more>
The National Health Department is in talks with the National Treasury about funding community healthcare workers. Read more>
Cancer patients needing radiotherapy treatment can now receive the treatment much more quickly and efficiently following the introduction of new sophisticated equipment at Groote Schuur Hospital's oncology unit.
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