Medscheme

31/07/2023

31/07/2023

Congratulations to Dr. Abongile Qamata for being runner-up at the recent Top Empowerment Top Empowered: Young Achiever of the Year Award category. This award honours young black executives under 40 years old who have made exceptional contributions to their organisations.

05/07/2023

[WATCH] Dr. Nkateko Msimeki on Expresso Morning Show - SABC 3 as she unpacks medical aid benefits and how people can plan and utilize their benefits in accordance with their family structures and needs.

With winter in full swing, learning how to stay healthy when your medical aid has been exhausted is super important! 🤒

We sit down with AfroCentric Health’s Senior Manager Health Policy Developer, Dr Nkateko Msimeki, to find out more.

07/06/2023

There is no better place to heal than at home. With Medscheme’s refined Hospital-at-Home offering in partnership with Quro Medical, patients and their treating doctors now have the alternative to choose to receive active treatment at home instead of a general ward, without any compromise on the quality of care.

Research has shown the benefits of at-home care include better clinical outcomes, lower costs, and an improved patient experience. In addition, some patients are especially vulnerable to hospital-acquired infection and may benefit from home-based care.

This offering does not aim to replace hospitalization, but to offer patients and their healthcare professionals an alternative that is safe, effective, and satisfactory at all times.

We recently surpassed the 1000 cases mark for Hospital-at-Home authorisations; a true embodiment of Medscheme’s vision and purpose to transform healthcare and enhance quality of life.

Medscheme is an AfroCentric Group company.

22/05/2023

Despite our optimism about the power of modern medicine to conquer all diseases, there comes a point when we need to confront the reality of our own mortality...

19/05/2023

09/05/2023

Dr. Jenni Noble-Luckhoff, Dr Mari Gildenhuys, and Sarah Bennett of Medscheme recently attended the 2023 Palliative Care Conference. This ‘first-of-its-kind’ conference was a collaboration between Patch SA - Palliative Care for Children South Africa, the Association of Palliative Care Practitioners of South Africa (Palprac), and the Hospice Palliative Care Association of South Africa (HPCA).

Medscheme views end-of-life care as an investment in humanity itself, a declaration that every individual deserves to experience dignity, comfort, and support during their final journey. Medscheme affirms our commitment to ENABLING access to quality SUPPORTIVE health care for members during this most fragile and vulnerable stage of life.

Palliative care is the physical, psychological, social, and spiritual care provided by a multidisciplinary team of experts to patients of any age diagnosed with a life-threatening or life-limiting illness, and their families, ideally from the point of diagnosis. Mark Heywood (human rights and social justice activist) also addressed conference delegates and challenged us all to fight for the provision of palliative care as a constitutional right.

It was the largest and most diverse gathering of people interested, and working in palliative care from public and private sectors and NGOs ever seen in South Africa. The conference was attended by 400-plus delegates from a broad spectrum of related and allied healthcare disciplines, including integrative therapists, counsellors, social workers, doctors, nurses, and specialists, among others.

The conference theme, Palliative Care is Everyone’s Business, conveys the message that palliative care is not just the domain of the specialist or dedicated NGOs, but something that can and should be implemented at all levels and in all healthcare settings.

Pictured are Dr Mari Gildenhuys, and Sarah Bennett of Medscheme.