The Competition Commission’s Private Healthcare Inquiry Panel has published the “Statement of Issues” and “Guidelines for Participation in the Market Inquiry into the Private Healthcare Sector” for public comment. The panel has invited the public to comment on these documents. They are attached below. Health Inquiry Draft Guidelines for Participation Health Inquiry Statement of Continue Reading
22 May 2014, Background This is a summary of the third day of the Netcare v KPMG case. Summaries for the first and second days appear here (day 1) and here (day 2) respectively. Today’s proceedings, as the last day of the hearing and the only day upon which Continue Reading
21 May 2014, Background This summary follows on from a summary released by SECTION27 on Tuesday 20 May in a press statement attempting to capture the first day of the Netcare v KPMG hearing. You can access this statement here. The importance of the law Netcare resumed argument on Continue Reading
20 May 2014, Background Netcare has approached the High Court in order to protect its confidential information from being disclosed by KPMG to the Competition Commission (Commission). The Commission has launched a market inquiry into the private health sector (market inquiry) and has employed KPMG as a consultant for this Continue Reading
SECTION27 encourages the South African public, the media and civil society to attend the High Court hearing in the case between Netcare and KPMG and the Competition Commission. This hearing will take place at the South Gauteng High Court in Johannesburg beginning at 10h00 on Tuesday 20 May to Thursday 22 Continue Reading
SECTION27 and Corruption Watch are hosting a civil society stakeholder meeting into the Competition Commission’s Market Inquiry into the Private Health Care Sector. Tim Fish Hodgson and Janneke Saltner’s presentation has been attached below. The Competition Commission has also released important dates for the Health Inquiry. These have also been Continue Reading
SECTION27 has developed a fact sheet into the Market Inquiry. This publication is an easily accessible guide to the Inquiry which explains its importance. This publication has been produced ahead of the civil society consultation that the organisation is hosting in partnership with Corruption Watch on 15 April 2014 at Continue Reading
SECTION27 WELCOMES THE RELEASE OF THE FINAL TERMS OF REFERENCE FOR THE COMPETITION COMMISSION’S HEALTH INQUIRY Introduction On Friday, 29 November 2013, the Competition Commission published the Final Terms of Reference for the inquiry into the private health sector (TOR). The publishing of this document follows from a period of Continue Reading
SECTION27 has sent a submission to the Competition Commission on the draft Terms of Reference for the Market Inquiry into the Private Health care Sector . It was endorsed by the Black Sash and by the Rural Health Advocacy Project. SECTION27’s recent submission to the Health Professions Council of South Africa in Continue Reading
SECTION27 congratulates the Competition Commission of South Africa on its recent groundbreaking and far-reaching successes in prosecuting anti-competitive behavior in the telecoms and construction sectors. Both these sectors are integral in improving the lives of South Africans through their role in information provision and communication (on the part of Telkom) and infrastructure development (by construction companies).
SECTION27 congratulates the Competition Commission of South Africa on its recent groundbreaking and far-reaching successes in prosecuting anti-competitive behavior in the telecoms and construction sectors. Both these sectors are integral in improving the lives of South Africans through their role in information provision and communication (on the part of Telkom) Continue Reading
SECTION27 and TAC welcome the announcement by Minister Ebrahim Patel that the Competition Commission will launch a market inquiry into the private healthcare sector in September 2013.