Health Minister, Dr Aaron Motsoaledi, has praised President Cyril Ramaphosa for announcing that South Africa will continue ...

President Cyril Ramaphosa announced an electronic health record system during the State of the Nation Address on Thursday ...

While it appeared last week that the Democratic Alliance (DA) and the African National Congress(ANC) may have reached some ...

The implementation of a national health insurance is still a sticking point between the ANC and the DA, with Health Minister ...

While last year's address outlined ambitious plans and celebrated certain achievements, healthcare professionals like Coetzee ...

News of a compromise sparked hope that at last there would be a better idea...but it seems that the NHI is going ahead as planned.

An understanding has been agreed to drop a provision that would have caused the collapse of private medical-insurance ...

President Cyril Ramaphosa used his 2025 State of the Nation address on Thursday to reaffirm the government’s commitment to rolling out the National Health Insurance (NHI) and promised improvements to ...

A timely report on governance in South Africa’s healthcare sector released last year identified several serious shortcomings. As the political and administrative wheels again start turning in 2025, we ...

South Africa's Democratic Alliance (DA) party declared itself in dispute with the Government of National Unity (GNU) on Saturday, accusing it of failing to consult its coalition partners on bills ...

Community health workers — also known as ooNomakhaya in isiXhosa — fill a major gap in healthcare in hard-to-reach places. Which is why National Health Insurance (NHI) needs to make sure they are part ...

Additionally, Moody’s said the proposed National Health Insurance (NHI ... Independent Online, popularly known as IOL, is one of South Africa’s leading news and information websites bringing ...