Medical Schemes

Profmed: the medical scheme for graduates
Profmed is the largest restricted medical scheme in South Africa exclusively for graduate professionals.

Women, take care of your health
Profmed: for women, sometimes staying healthy isn't just about responding to illness, it's about engaging in preventative procedures to ensure that disease doesn't gain a foothold.

Avoiding lifestyle diseases
It is possible to significantly reduce the risk of contracting a number of diseases by changing the way we live our lives.

Better sleep equals a better you
If you aren't getting more than seven hours' sleep a night, your risk factors for many different diseases, like heart disease or cancer increases.

Medical inflation: not schemes' fault
Comments by SAMA that overspending on administration by medical aid schemes is responsible for fuelling medical inflation is misleading, says the Principal Officer of Profmed.

Hospices to form part of NHI?
It is crucial that hospices are also incorporated into the new NHI, says Graham Anderson, Principal Officer of Profmed.

Profmed’s report card shows an A+
Profmed has maintained an A+ rating for their medical schemes claims paying ability in the 2009 financial year, according to the Global Credit Rating Co.

Profmed to increase benefits
Profmed will be increasing its medical schemes rates in 2011, but at the same time, benefits to the medical aid members will be enhanced.

Advertorial: Low-salt diet
New research is showing that while salt isn’t the best substance for sufferers of high blood pressure, for everyone else, it’s not the terrible toxin it was once thought to be.

Judge a medicine by its label
An understanding of pharmaceutical labeling will go a long way to making you an informed consumer.

White paper on NHI imminent
Government’s White Paper on the National Health Insurance initiative is expected to be published imminently.