Deputy Editor
The CEO of private healthcare major Life Healthcare has warned that companies are increasingly opting for lower prices over quality when choosing wellness services for their employees, flagging a flurry of new entrants who have caused this structural shift.
The group’s unit Life Health Solutions is one of South Africa’s leading occupational health, wellness and health risk management outfits, which partners with businesses countrywide to provide employee wellness programmes, primary healthcare and emergency medical services.
Life Healthcare CEO Peter Wharton-Hood told Business Day that healthcare services operations are under continued pressure from a more challenging operating environment.
“Life Health Solutions is, in the main, an occupational health services company. What we have found is that demand for those services remains because it is a statutory obligation on companies. However, the price companies are willing to pay is constantly under pressure.
