bounce

winter’19

CEO’s message

NEW MEDIA EDITORIAL TEAM

Editor

Biddi Rorke

Art Director

Marcus Viljoen

ADVISORY BOARD

Teddy Mosomothane

Dr Niri Naidoo

Angie Sime

ADVERTISING

Head of Advertising and Sales

Jeanine Boshoff

Key Account Manager

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PUBLISHING & PRODUCTION

LIFESTYLE DIVISION

Group Account Director

Cat Anderson

Group Managing Editor

Chantel Kleinsmidt

Production Manager

Shirley Quinlan

EXECUTIVE TEAM

Managing Director

Aileen Lamb

Commercial Director

Maria Tiganis

Content Director

Andrew Nunneley

Chief Executive Ofﬁcer

Bridget McCarney

Executive Director

John Psillos

Non-Executive Director

Irna van Zyl

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you’ll enjoy this issue of

Bounce

magazine as

much as we enjoyed putting it together for you! We encourage you to

complete the quizzes – and to measure your wellness progress.

Complete the Live, Eat, Move

questionnaires to measure

your wellness progress.

We trust

Teddy Mosomothane

Chief Executive Ofﬁcer

Every year Bankmed calls for

nominations from principal members to

ﬁll the vacancies created by two retiring

member-elected trustees on the Bankmed

Board of Trustees.

If you were a principal member of the

Scheme at the beginning of the nomination

process, you would have been invited to

nominate a candidate from amongst other

principal members. We wish to thank

those who responded and participated in

this process, and urge you to consider the

importance of the role of trustees.

For information about the election process

and the AGM, please turn to

page 66

Bankmed is very grateful for the

partnership with its employer group clients

and individual members, and the better

value that this partnership in health and

wellness has created over the years.

We have used previous opportunities,

especially at roadshows, to highlight

the better value that our members are

enjoying – and the focus has generally been

on our comparatively richer beneﬁts for

lower contributions, when compared to an

average open medical scheme, based on

independent actuarial analysis.

What we

have recently started highlighting is

the quality element of our healthcare

offering. Quality is one of the

elements of value. Our assertions

about Bankmed’s better value cannot

ignore this element.

The World Health Organization deﬁnes

Quality of Care as “the extent to which

healthcare services provided to individuals

and patient populations improve desired

health outcomes. In order to achieve this,

healthcare must be safe, effective, timely,

efﬁcient, equitable and people-centred.”

One of the deﬁnitions assigned to “health

outcome” is the “result of a medical

condition that directly affects the length

or quality of a person’s life”. There is a lot

of literature on this, but I don’t want us to

be stuck on deﬁnitions. Instead I want to

give you assurance that we pay attention to

these things, as we should.

We have a habit of subjecting ourselves

to independent analysis to strengthen the

credibility of our assertions. Now, speciﬁcally

regarding quality of care, Bankmed also

participates in the industry assessment

facilitated by an entity operating as Health

Quality Assessment (HQA). There is an

understanding amongst participants that our

participation is not aimed at revealing our

individual entities’ strengths or weaknesses,

but elevating the quality of care across the

country.

I therefore don’t intend to break the

informal understanding in this regard, but I

can say the quality of Bankmed’s healthcare

offering is something our members can be

proud of. There are four broad categories

that are assessed by HQA: Screening and

Prevention (Primary Care); Chronic Disease

Management; Hospitalisation; Antenatal and

Perinatal Care. Bankmed is certainly one of the

leaders in the industry in all four categories. It

has turned out to be one of the value attributes

that sets us apart.

Here’s to your good health!