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BE PART OF SOMETHING SPECIAL!
Join us for the hard launch of the SAMED’s Women Empowerment Index. During this session, the Diversity in Medtech Committee will showcase the online platform where members can input their women empowerment metrics.
Event details
Date: Wednesday, 07 August 2024
Time: 10:00 – 11:30
Venue: Microsoft Teams
RSVP: Click Here
In April 2024, SAMED held a soft launch of the SAMED Woman Empowerment Index (WEI), a benchmarking tool designed to monitor and encourage progress made towards greater economic inclusion and empowerment of women in the medtech industry – it was developed in collaboration with SAMED members and Deloitte. The WEI will establish baseline scores and track key metrics over time. These include:
- Women’s employment rates
- Remuneration levels for women
- Female representation in leadership positions
- Women’s ownership in medtech companies
- Opportunities for women’s development.
Participating Members will not have visibility of each other’s information on this platform.
Significant progress has been made in building a bespoke platform that will house the data needed to start generating information and insights on the extent of women empowerment in medtech companies.
The Diversity in Medtech Committee and Peter Mehlape, SAMED Chairperson, issued a call to action, at the SAMED Annual General Meeting, for all member companies to join this unprecedented initiative.
Why should I participate and take the WEI Pledge?
- Empower and develop women to: increase company productivity; diverse perspectives lead to better decision-making; increase innovation and creativity; enhance team collaboration; improve organizational profitability and performance, improve industry gender parity, and positively impact society.
- This is a quick-win opportunity to contribute and improve the company’s B-BBEE rating. A secondary benefit is, to align the company with the imminent implementation of SAHPRA’s Draft B-BBEE Policy which will affect the issuance of licences.
- Collective medtech achievement to improving and achieving the global advancement of the United Nation’s Sustainable Development Goal 5: Gender Equality Work
- Download your company WEI score certificate for use in annual reporting and/or corporate marketing material thus enhancing your company’s competitiveness in tendering processes.
Members who have not signed up to participate are encouraged to take the WEI Pledge before the launch of the platform.
Thus far the companies listed below have pledged to participate in the index:
EMPOWERING MEMBERS TO EMPOWER THEMSELVES
Event Details
Date: 08 August 2024
Time: 10:00 – 12:00
Format: Microsoft Teams
Register: Click Here
The South African reimbursement/HTA and private procurement space is complex and fragmented.
SAMED has developed guidance for members to assist them in navigating this space, supporting them in bringing new technologies to market and ensuring their products are reimbursed by medical schemes and procured by private procurers. The Market Access Committee has invited MediKredit to share the developments they have been working on that are influencing the industry.
Who should attend?
- Financial Officers
- Procurement officers
- Reimbursement Leads
- Product Managers
Areas of Discussion
Update on MediKredit’s medtech developments by Krish Pather, Managing Director, MediKredit
- MediKredit’s NAPPI policy as it relates to medical technology including
- Why is funder approval required as a criterion to obtain a NAPPI code
- Process for NAPPI codes for Medtech products that don’t fall in an existing product category/not previously reimbursed
- Latest medtech statistics, categorisations, etc.
Mark Brand, SAMED Market Access Committee Member:
- SAMED guidance document – why and what
- Global medtech reimbursement principles
- HTA dossier guideline document that members can use when making reimbursement/HTA applications to medical schemes
- ISPOR Conference and ONE HTA Project
Keshnee Pillay, SAMED Market Access Committee Chair:
- The South African private market access process, including tips and trends for engaging medical schemes and private hospitals
SAMED Medical Device Code Forum
3 September 2024, 10:00 – 12:00
Medical device representatives in the clinical environment, Loan sample and demonstration products, Competition law update
SAMED 2024 Annual Conference
16-17 September 2024, 08:00 – 17:00
View the preliminary agenda here.
SAMED Diversity in Medtech Forum
19 September 2024, 10:00 – 12:00
Purpose drivent transformation
SAMED Gauteng Chairperson’s Forum
20 September 2024, 10:00 – 13:00
Content to be confirmed
SAMED NHI Forum
29 October 2024, 10:00 – 12:00
Content to be confirmed
SAMED Orthopaedic Suppliers Forum
30 October 2024, 10:00 – 12:00
Update on matter affecting the orthopaedics industry
SAMED Regulatory Forum
5 November 2024, 10:00 – 12:00
ISO 13485 Measurement analysis and improvement, MD SAP for local manufacturers, Direct to consumer communications and marketing
SAMED Market Access Forum
7 November 2024, 10:00 – 12:00
Eastern Cape procurement and tender process, Cure Day Clinics procurement policies and processes, MediClinic procurement policies and processes
SAMED Medical Device Code Forum
12 November 2024, 10:00 – 12:00
Whistle-blowing hotline process, updated on 18 A B & C, Trends and challenges in compliance
SAMED Diversity in Medtech Forum
14 November 2024, 10:00 – 12:00
Practical aspects of B-BEE verification, YES and alumni programme update, Women Empowerment Index update
SAMED CEO Pulse
15 November 2024, 13:00 – 17:00
Content to be confirmed
