Update on SASES and Bariatric Surgery
Dear Members The SASES Exco has been reviewing the position of bariatric and metabolic surgery in South Africa with the view to supporting this very necessary surgery. From the outset the SASES Exco has …
Update on your society’s activities since Port Elizabeth ASSA/SAGES
Dear Membership As we have entered the final quarter of 2017 it is fitting that you, the Membership, have an update on what your Society – SASES is doing for you and for endoscopic surgery. …
Laparoscopic Appendectomy Study, Medscheme
22 May 2017 The final analysis of our six-month study was completed by Medscheme. Fedhealth has now agreed to allow all appendectomies to be done laparoscopically, by SASES surgeons, in any hospital until the end …
BREAKING NEWS : BONITAS MEDICAL SCHEME / LAPAROSCOPIC APPENDECTOMIES
After our Laparoscopic Appendectomy Pilot Study which admittedly produced very small numbers, Bonitas Medical Scheme, who as you know falls under the Medscheme umbrella – our partners in the Laparoscopic Appendicectomy Study - have agreed …
FEEDBACK ON MEDSCHEME LAPAROSCOPIC APPENDIX PROJECT
The pilot project for Laparoscopic Appendicectomies under the Medscheme umbrella came to an end on 31/12/2016. Medscheme have started to unbundle the data which shows the following: A very small cohort of patients …
ADVANCED LAPAROSCOPIC SUTURING COURSE
When I became President of the Society I took a decision to attend the first available course at our much spoken about Surgical Skills Lab at the Red Cross Children’s War Memorial Hospital. As you …
President’s Letter 2017
2 January 2017 Dear SASES Members NEW YEARS GREETINGS 2017 The new year has started and with it SASES is actively back at work hoping to make 2017 another bumper year for the Society. …