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The contact details project aimed to test whether providing free WiFi, where you must log-on using the cell phone number you have with you, while waiting to be seen in a primary healthcare (PHC) facility [...]
Percept
September 2024
Image source: Leapfrog to Value Leapfrog to Value and Percept | May 2024 On Mother’s Day 2024, Leapfrog to Value and Percept launched the Maternity Playbook, which is designed to unite three critical movements within [...]
Percept
May 2024
Western Cape Department of Health and Wellness, and Percept | February 2024 The PRO-Active TElemedicine TaCTical OpeRation (PROTECTOR) programme was a telehealth pilot intervention to support people living with poorly controlled diabetes. The aim of [...]
Percept
February 2024
Percept | January 2024 The PRO-Active TElemedicine TaCTical OpeRation (PROTECTOR) project was a telehealth study initiated in Hanover Park in the Western Cape in 2021. Its goal was to understand if telemedicine could be used [...]
Percept
February 2024
Percept | January 2024 The emergence of telehealth services in the South African healthcare sector was not without its share of challenges. Besides the expected obstacles of poor data integrity, limited infrastructure and varying levels [...]
Percept
February 2024
Percept | January 2024 The PRO-Active TElemedicine TaCTical OpeRation (PROTECTOR) project was a telehealth study initiated in Hanover Park in the Western Cape in 2021. Its goal was to understand if telemedicine could be used [...]
Percept
February 2024
Image source: DataDrive2030 DataDrive2030, Percept, and others | September 2023 The use of large datasets in an Early Childhood Development (ECD) setting has, to date, been limited. Using DataDrive2030’s first combined dataset, a Positive Deviance [...]
Percept
December 2023
Image source: DataDrive2030 Dave Strugnell, Junita Henry, and Claire Gomes | September 2023 This report aims to investigate the influence that the Covid-19 pandemic had on preschool outcomes, as measured by the Early Learning Measures [...]
Percept
November 2023
Dr Jodi Wishnia, Michelle Flowers and Suhavna Khalawan | August 2023 South Africa is experiencing a substantial rise in the number and quantum of medical negligence claims in its public health sector.[1] If claims are successful, [...]
Percept
November 2023
Suhavna Khalawan, Adv Anele Ngidi, Michelle Flowers and Dr Jodi Wishnia | August 2023 One of the recommendations outlined in the South African Law Reform Commission (SALRC) discussion paper[1] was the establishment of structured settlements [...]
Percept
November 2023
Michelle Flowers, Suhavna Khalawan and Dr Jodi Wishnia | August 2023 Despite it being well-known that the cost of caring for a child with cerebral palsy (CP) is high, epidemiological data outlining the services required [...]
Percept
November 2023
Dr Jodi Wishnia, Dr Anke Nitzsche, Dr Mawadda Cassiem-Majal, Suhavna Khalawan and Adv Anele Ngidi | August 2023 Medico-legal claims against South Africa’s public health sector are soaring. Minister of Health, Joe Phaahla, reported that [...]
Percept
November 2023