FAILED PLEDGE Eastern Cape Health MEC breaks promise to appoint CEOs for all major state hospitals 4 min 2 By Estelle Ellis
BHEKISISA Will mediation stop dodgy lawyers in SA from milking the Health Department? 1 min 2 By Zano Kunene
RESCUE BID Respected Eastern Cape health chief Rolene Wagner returns to post after government ‘intervention’ 4 min 15 By Estelle Ellis
SPOTLIGHT Eastern Cape healthcare shambles — do political parties have solutions? We asked them 6 min 3 By Luvuyo Mehlwana for Spotlight
SPOTLIGHT Ramaphosa proclaims ‘health revolution’ at second Presidential Health Summit 6 min 2 By Ufrieda Ho
PLIGHT OF THE IMMOBILE ‘It is not nice being me’ — more than 5,000 people in Eastern Cape wait for wheelchairs 5 min 1 By Estelle Ellis, Hoseya Jubase and Siyabonga Kamnqa
EASTERN CAPE HEALTH CRISIS Desperate Livingstone Hospital doctors tell patients: Call President Ramaphosa – we can’t fix your broken bones 5 min 21 By Estelle Ellis
HIGH COURT JUDGMENT Eastern Cape Health Department wins significant legal victory against medico-legal claims 5 min 1 By Estelle Ellis
GROUNDUP Debt from medical negligence claims threaten ‘collapse’ of EC health service — court rules govt to blame 4 min 0 By Tania Broughton
LIVINGSTONE HOSPITAL EC legislature orders provincial health dept to pay for orthopaedic implants to avert ‘humanitarian crisis’ 2 min 0 By Estelle Ellis
SPOTLIGHT ANALYSIS What does a security guard strike reveal about the Eastern Cape health department? 2 min 0 By Luvuyo Mehlwana for Spotlight
COVID-19 A bankrupt Eastern Cape health department stares down the fourth wave 5 min 0 By Estelle Ellis
MAVERICK CITIZEN INTERVIEW Woman of Courage: Eastern Cape’s new health superintendent-general Rolene Wagner 8 min 0 By Estelle Ellis
MAVERICK CITIZEN Eastern Cape Department of Health in legal bid to halt lump sum payouts for medical negligence 3 min 1 By Estelle Ellis
SPOTLIGHT South Africa take note: Employing more nurses can slash total health costs, study suggests 7 min 0 By Tiyese Jeranji for Spotlight
SPOTLIGHT Court again steps in to plug the gap left by the legislature on medico-legal claims 5 min 0 By Motheo Brodie and Sasha Stevenson
SPOTLIGHT In depth: This is how health departments (mis)spend public funds 13 min 4 By Alicestine October for Spotlight
MAVERICK CITIZEN Soaring medico-legal claims against state hospitals: Courts may consider forms of compensation other than lump-sum payments 3 min 0 By Estelle Ellis
A PROVINCE AT BREAKING POINT Fallout from decades of chaotic litigation poses new threat to the Eastern Cape Department of Health 4 min 0 By Estelle Ellis
MAVERICK CITIZEN Medico-legal claims remain Eastern Cape’s biggest budgetary headache 7 min 0 By Estelle Ellis
Setback for SIU Court refuses to reopen settled R9-million medico-legal claim in a case ‘mishandled’ by state attorney 4 min 0 By Estelle Ellis
