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Often in our work as cancer advocates, Campaigning for Cancer is ask to comment on certain issues or documents. Below is a list of our comments and submission on issues regarding the cancer patient.

Date Published Issue being addressed Description Document C4C’s Response/ Submission
11 May 2009 Call for Stakeholder comments on the 3rd Draft of PMB review Department of Health has to by law (Medical Schemes Act) review Prescribed Minimum Benefits (PMBs) on a regular basis. This review must focus on issues such as changes in technology and health policy, and the impact of the PMBs on medical scheme affordability and viability. The Council for Medical Schemes has be given the mandate by the department to undertake this process PMBs are a set of defined benefits that ensure that all medical scheme members have access to certain minimum health services, regardless of their benefit option.

The outcome of this review will be used to advise about changes that should made to the PMBs.
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31 December 2009

Interested persons have been invited to submit any substantiated comments or representations in writing on the proposed regulations relating to cancer registration.

This document invites comment on the proposed regulations relating to the establishment of a cancer registry. Areas of specific focus are:-

The establishment of a Cancer Registration Advisory Committee and its objectives and functions;

The establishment of a national cancer registry;

The establishment a national childhood cancer registry;

The establ ishment of Population Based Cancer Registries;

Defining the objective of the National Cancer Registry
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Fri 2008/02/15 The Submission of the Board of Health Care Funders to be exempt from the Competition Act 1998, in terms of Section 10 An application for an exemption has been filed with the Competition Commission ("the Commission") by the Board of Healthcare Funders of Southern Africa on behalf of all medical schemes. The exemption application is in respect of agreements amongst all medical schemes to eliminate the switching of members between schemes, to standardise the interpretation of the prescribed minimum benefits, to use a standardized coding system, to undertake forensic investigations against over-servicing, to share cost and price information and for collective bargaining with manufacturers of medical devices.
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