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  • Discovery Life clients receive R11bn in 2022 through claims and Shared-value pay-outs

    Discovery Life clients receive R11bn in 2022 through claims and Shared-value pay-outs

    Johannesburg– Discovery Life’s annual claims review reveals a total of R11 billion was returned to its clients in 2022 in claims linked to uncertain, life-altering events and shared-value benefits. These pay-outs comprised of R9.1 billion in individual life and group life claims and R1.9 billion in PayBack and Cash Conversion payments to clients for managing their health and wellness.
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  • Vitality Drive 3.0: Geared to reward your clients even more

    Vitality Drive 3.0: Geared to reward your clients even more


    On 1 June 2023, Discovery Insure launched Vitality Drive 3.0, the unique driver behaviour programme with some game-changing enhancements to its predecessor, Vitality Drive 2.0. Rewarding clients with more relevant rewards than ever before, for driving well, and a simpler, more transparent way to earn them, makes Vitality Drive 3.0 even more successful in its efforts to encourage better drivin

  • Understand and use your medical scheme’s screening and prevention benefits

    Understand and use your medical scheme’s screening and prevention benefits

    Issued on behalf of Discovery Health Medical Scheme (DHMS)
    It’s all too easy to brush off that mild headache as being a by-product of a stressful day, too much coffee or too little water. But what if it isn’t? Sometimes seemingly insignificant niggles are signs of something else going on in the body. And sometimes, there aren’t any obvious signs at all.
    In fact, some health conditions are e

  • Vitality’s new HealthyWeight programme shows promising results

    Vitality’s new HealthyWeight programme shows promising results

    The Vitality HealthyWeight programme has the main goal of supporting Vitality members who face greater health risks from being overweight or obese. In only two months, the programme has seen more than 1,000 Vitality members join and actively engage with it.

  • Vitality Health International announces a partnership with Goodbye Malaria

    Vitality Health International announces a partnership with Goodbye Malaria

    With World Malaria Day on 25 April, Vitality Health International, an innovative health insurer that rewards healthy living for employees in the rest of Africa (and owned by Discovery Group), has announced a partnership with social benefit organisation, Goodbye Malaria, to reduce the high incidence of malaria, a disease that is still taking an unrelenting toll on human health in Africa.

  • Flu season is around the corner: Five good reasons to get your flu vaccine today

    Flu season is around the corner: Five good reasons to get your flu vaccine today

    Influenza (flu) season is around the corner and this year’s flu vaccine is available to protect us against the flu strains that are expected to circulate and make people sick.
    “Having our flu vaccine lowers our risk of becoming sick with flu - or seriously ill with flu if we are in the high-risk group for this and also limits the spread of infection to others,” says Dr Noluthando Nematswerani,

  • What can a Health Check do for you today that burgers for lunch everyday won’t?

    What can a Health Check do for you today that burgers for lunch everyday won’t?

    It can prevent a heart attack or perhaps a stroke or even the development of certain cancers. The lifestyle choices you make today can largely determine your health in the long-term.
    It’s a well-known fact that fast food is generally high in sugar, salt, and unhealthy fats. The body reacts to these in negative ways, namely the development of illness, such as heart disease, type 2 diabetes, an

  • Weight loss drugs are no quick fix – here’s what you need to know

    Weight loss drugs are no quick fix – here’s what you need to know

    In recent months, A-list celebrities have openly shared that they have taken drugs like Ozempic and Wegovy to lose weight.
    This has prompted a huge demand for these sorts of medicines from the broader public and created supply chain shortages for drugs like Ozempic, significantly impacting the management of patients living with diabetes (for whom this drug is intended).
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  • Cogence brings BlackRock to South Africa - A relationship that gives SA financial advisers access to the global investment universe

    Cogence brings BlackRock to South Africa - A relationship that gives SA financial advisers access to the global investment universe

    Johannesburg 22 March 2023: Discovery Chief Executive Adrian Gore hosted BlackRock's EMEA Head, Stephen Cohen, in a virtual examination of the current state of markets, the importance of innovation and the principles underscoring the phenomenal growth of Discovery and BlackRock. The success of these organisations prefaced a discussion on how BlackRock’s expertise in global investment and Aladdin W

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