Palliative care is increasingly part of the public conversation in South Africa, and we like to keep our community in the loop. Below is a running collection of media coverage: news articles, interviews and broadcast segments featuring PALPRAC and the palliative care sector more broadly.
Who Will Pay for Palliative Care in South Africa?
As South Africa revises its National Palliative Care Policy, the challenge is ensuring that policy commitments translate into accessible, adequately funded services. In this Spotlight opinion piece, Motlalentoa Motsoane, CEO of the Association of Palliative […]
A public health system that failed its own palliative care audit
Dr Andrea Mendelsohn, a palliative care doctor working in the public sector, writes about South Africa’s public palliative care system failing a forthcoming World Health Organization audit, and what genuine access to pain relief and […]
How Groote Schuur is redefining dignity in palliative care
Bhekisisa’s Mia Malan speaks to Dr René Krause, who leads the palliative care unit at Groote Schuur Hospital, about the unit’s award-winning partnership with the hospital’s oncology team, common misconceptions around morphine, and what dignity […]
Podcast highlights growing access, and remaining gaps, in SA palliative care
In a HASA-sponsored podcast, Dr Lungi Nyathi of value-based care provider Alignd discusses how access to palliative care is growing through private medical schemes, while the public sector remains patchy and trained providers stay scarce, […]
A trailblazer bringing palliative care into public hospitals.
BizCommunity speaks to Dr Clint Cupido about Abundant Life Palliative Care, a hospital-based programme at Victoria Hospital in Wynberg that supports patients and their families after discharge. Referrals have grown sharply since 2009, as the […]
PALPRAC co-hosts South Africa’s first joint palliative care conference
In this Daily Maverick op-ed, PALPRAC’s Dr Julia Ambler writes with co-organisers from Palliative Care for Children South Africa and the Hospice Palliative Care Association of South Africa about the first national conference bringing the […]
Palliative Care Conference 2023: Let’s start a conversation.
Bush Radio speaks to PALPRAC member, social worker, and co-director of Umduduzi Hospice, Tracey Brand. Tracey introduces the Palliative Care Conference to Bush Radio listeners and explores its central theme: Palliative care is everyone’s […]
Dr Julia Ambler discusses the morphine shortage, leaving patients without pain relief.
Thank you to the POWER FM lunch team for this interview with PALPRAC Chair, Dr Julia Ambler, discussing the lack of availability of morphine. Reminding us that this poses a genuine concern for patients and doctors […]
Morphine shortage leaves patients without pain relief.
News24 traces a nationwide shortage of morphine powder, used to make the liquid morphine many palliative care patients rely on, back to a supply problem at a single Cape Town manufacturer. PALPRAC’s Dr Margie Venter […]
In Medies met Dr Darren Green (KykNet) gesels met Dr Margie Venter oor Palliatiewe Sorg
PALPRAC Clinical Director, Dr Margie Venter, discusses palliative care on Medies met Dr Darren Green on kykNET. The conversation highlights common misconceptions, important facts about palliative care, the value of multidisciplinary support, and PALPRAC’s […]
Putting the spotlight on pain management
Spotlight looks at why good pain management is still out of reach for many South Africans, including gaps in access to morphine and in prescribing rules. PALPRAC’s Dr Margie Venter features in the piece.
The children being left behind by South Africa’s palliative care gap.
PALPRAC board chair Dr Julia Ambler, of Umduduzi Hospice Care for Children, writes about the shortage of funded posts for children’s palliative care in South Africa, noting that at the time only one doctor nationally […]
