Gap-cover health insurance under scrutiny. THE government is tightening the noose on companies selling “gap-cover” health insurance, hoping it can stabilise the medical schemes market and ensure better consumer protection by scrapping all but a few tightly defined products. Last Friday the Treasury published draft regulations to both the Long-term and Short-term Insurance Acts, [...]
IPT – Fact or Fiction
UPDATE: No further discussion re IPT as a therapeutic approach in cancer care will be placed on this website as we are not treatment experts. Our focus as a NGO is patient empowerment and emotional support. Our aim is to ensure that patients get relevant and sound information from their treating oncologist and have access [...]
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PATIENT RIGHTS CHARTER
MEDICAL AND DENTAL PROFESSIONS BOARD GUIDELINES FOR GOOD PRACTICE IN MEDICINE, DENTISTRY AND THE MEDICAL SCIENCES NATIONAL PATIENTS’ RIGHTS CHARTER BOOKLET 13 PRETORIA JULY 2002 1 NATIONAL PATIENTS’ RIGHTS CHARTER PREAMBLE The Department of Health, in consultation with various other bodies, developed a National Patients’ Rights Charter. The Medical and Dental Professions Board at the [...]
Patient Rights
HEALTH PROFESSIONS COUNCIL OF SOUTH AFRICA GUIDELINES FOR GOOD PRACTICE IN THE HEALTH CARE PROFESSIONS GUIDELINES ON THE KEEPING OF PATIENT RECORDS OWNERSHIP OF RECORDS 10.1 In the case of state institutions, where records e.g radiographs are the property of the institution, original records and images should be retained by the institution. Copies must however, [...]
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