Health Market Inquiry Final Findings and Recommendations Report (September 2019)

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The Health Market Inquiry (HMI), published by the Competition Commission in September 2019, examined the cost, transparency, and competitiveness of South Africa’s private healthcare sector. Its findings highlighted the imbalance of market power between large hospital groups and independent facilities — a key concern for NHN hospitals. The report supports fair competition, tariff transparency, and regulatory reform to ensure that independent hospitals remain sustainable and accessible, helping to preserve choice, quality, and affordability for South African patients.

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How private hospitals are using lessons learnt from Covid-19 to become ‘obsessive infection control bubbles’

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Private hospitals have tightened their Covid-19 protocols, which include screening and physical distancing to ensure the safety of patients. Patients returning to private hospitals for treatment will find themselves in an “obsessive infection control bubble” environment intended to keep them safer from Covid-19 than virtually anywhere else, said Dr Charl Loggerenberg, general manager of Emergency

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Melomed: Patient recovers after swallowing a foreign object while cleaning his fish tank

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Mr Shaafie Abrahams from Belhar presented at Melomed Gatesville Hospital in the evening of 13 October with a su dden onset of shortness of breath and chest pain after inhaling a rubber valve while cleaning his fish tank. He had attempted to withdraw the valve as he has on previous occasions but unfortunately he was

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NHN’s Neil Nair: ‘Staff welfare first, hospital industry equity paramount!’

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The National Hospital Network (NHN), founded in 1996 with the prime objective of bringing together leading independently owned private hospitals, now comprises 230 establishments – the emergence of many of which can be traced back to the apartheid spatial planning which denied adequate hospital infrastructure in disadvantaged areas. Heading up the organisation as CEO since

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Melomed Gatesville Hospital successfully discharges COVID-19 patient

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Mr Bathandwa Zuzo, a 48-year-old male, from Gugulethu was successfully discharged from Melomed Gatesville Hospital after 3 weeks of hospitalisation recovering from the COVID-19 virus. A cheering crowd of staff members lined the hospital’s hallways, as Mr Zuzo said his goodbyes. He was met at the entrance of the hospital by his family members and

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Local doctors and engineers build makeshift emergency ventilator using everyday items

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A Krugersdorp-based doctor employed a little help from his friends to come up with an innovative design to simplify access to ventilation in the face of the Covid-19 pandemic. Jano de Beer, a medical practitioner, with the expert assistance of anaesthetist Estienne Neuhoff and electronic engineers Gerry Geel and Maritz Botha, are well on their way

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Melomed doing compulsory Covid-19 testing for all new admissions

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The Melomed Hospitals group is testing all its new admissions for Covid-19 regardless of the reason why people are admitted, to mitigate the spread of the novel coronavirus, the group said on Monday. “Melomed Hospitals’ strict clinical processes requires that all patients admitted into the Melomed Hospitals as ‘in-patients’ are to be tested for Covid-19,”

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