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Oct 7, 2024 | 
spotlightnsp.co.za | Nthusang Lefafa |Elri Voigt |Adele Baleta |Jesse Copelyn
The NHI Act states that the first phase of the scheme will last from 2023 to 2026. (Photo: Rosetta Msimango/Spotlight) News & Features8th October 2024 | Jesse Copelyn As health department officials move to set up National Health Insurance’s basic structures, including its board, several experts say the scheme remains a pipe-dream, doomed to the same fate as Gauteng’s aborted e-tolls project.
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Oct 2, 2024 | 
spotlightnsp.co.za | Adele Baleta |Ufrieda Ho |Tiyese Jeranji |Thabo Molelekwa
Professor Lucy Gilson, head of the University of Cape Town's Health Policy and Systems Division, has been honoured with The Virchow Prize 2024. (Photo: Biénne Huisman/Spotlight) News & Features2nd October 2024 | Biénne Huisman Professor Lucy Gilson scooped the prestigious international Virchow Prize. She chats to Biénne Huisman about her upbringing, unexpected dive into the world of public health, and shares her thoughts on National Health Insurance.
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Sep 26, 2024 | 
spotlightnsp.co.za | Tiyese Jeranji |Adele Baleta |Biénne Huisman |Thabo Molelekwa
A nurse in mask and gloves. (Photo: Laura James/Pexels) News & Features26th September 2024 | Thabo Molelekwa The increased professionalisation of nursing in South Africa in recent years marks a significant shift in the perception and practice of this essential healthcare field.
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Jun 4, 2024 | 
spotlightnsp.co.za | Luvuyo Mehlwana |Adele Baleta |Biénne Huisman |Tiyese Jeranji
ANC President Cyril Ramaphosa, with Minister of Health, Dr Joe Phaahla and his deputy Dr Sibongiseni Dhlomo, during the signing into law of the National Health Insurance Bill. (Photo: @MYANC/Twitter) News & Features4th June 2024 | Marcus Low After the ANC received less than 41% of the votes in last week’s national elections, negotiations are now underway that will determine how and by who South Africa is governed.
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Mar 4, 2024 | 
spotlightnsp.co.za | Adele Baleta |Biénne Huisman |Mbali Baduza |Matshidiso Lencoasa
Rahima Moosa Mother and Child Hospital serves up to 2 300 people admitted per month as well as 10 000 outpatients each month. (Photo: Denvor de Wee/Spotlight) News & Features4th March 2024 | Ufrieda Ho Spotlight visits Rahima Moosa Mother and Child Hospital and sees progress for the struggling hospital but also the reality that there’s a long road ahead to undo what a health ombud report suggests has been years of neglect and poor management.
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Feb 25, 2024 | 
spotlightnsp.co.za | Adele Baleta |Alicestine October |Elri Voigt |Marcus Low
Professor Lorna Martin is a leading forensic pathologist who worked on several headline-catching cases. (Photo: Nasief Manie/Spotlight) News & Features26th February 2024 | Biénne Huisman Mortuaries are grim places, yet Professor Lorna Martin – South Africa’s first woman to head a forensic medicine department – also visits mortuaries when she is on holiday. She was born in Newcastle in the United Kingdom and matriculated at a school in Boksburg on Gauteng’s East Rand.
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Feb 25, 2024 | spotlightnsp.co.za | Adele Baleta |Alicestine October |Elri Voigt |Marcus Low
Professor Lorna Martin is a leading forensic pathologist who worked on several headline-catching cases. (Photo: Nasief Manie/Spotlight) News & Features26th February 2024 | Biénne Huisman Mortuaries are grim places, yet Professor Lorna Martin – South Africa’s first woman to head a forensic medicine department – also visits mortuaries when she is on holiday. She was born in Newcastle in the United Kingdom and matriculated at a school in Boksburg on Gauteng’s East Rand.
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Nov 22, 2023 | 
spotlightnsp.co.za | Elri Voigt |Adele Baleta |Alicestine October |Luvuyo Mehlwana
PHOTO: Luvuyo Mehlwana/Spotlight News & Features23rd November 2023 | Luvuyo Mehlwana A recent labour dispute involving emergency medical service (EMS) workers in the Eastern Cape has once again placed the spotlight on the province’s chronic EMS problems. Spotlight and other publications have often in recent years reported on the province’s ongoing ambulance shortages and patients at times having to resort to private transport in emergencies.
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Nov 22, 2023 | spotlightnsp.co.za | Elri Voigt |Adele Baleta |Alicestine October |Luvuyo Mehlwana
PHOTO: Luvuyo Mehlwana/Spotlight News & Features23rd November 2023 | Luvuyo Mehlwana A recent labour dispute involving emergency medical service (EMS) workers in the Eastern Cape has once again placed the spotlight on the province’s chronic EMS problems. Spotlight and other publications have often in recent years reported on the province’s ongoing ambulance shortages and patients at times having to resort to private transport in emergencies.
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Oct 31, 2023 | 
spotlightnsp.co.za | Biénne Huisman |Marcus Low |Adele Baleta |Tiyese Jeranji
Bridget McNulty, the founder of South Africa's largest online diabetes community, is passionate about educating others on the condition. PHOTO: Nasief Manie/Spotlight News & Features1st November 2023 | Biénne Huisman As a type 1 diabetic, first diagnosed days away from slipping into a hyperglycaemic coma, diabetes education is near Bridget McNulty’s heart. Eyes ablaze and hands trailing the air, McNulty is impassioned.
