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Local healthcare practice receives prestigious award

Medicross Saxby voted top ten of network family practitioners
Wednesday, June 8 2022

Centurion’s Medicross Saxby was recently awarded a Bestmed Top Ten Network Family Practitioners annual certificate of excellence, following the results of the scheme’s Voice of the Patient survey.

According to Dr Hirsch Jocum, managing practitioner at Medicross Saxby, the practitioners received a 100% patient satisfaction score across all four quarters of 2021, qualifying the facility and the team to receive the prestigious award.

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Pic: From left to right: Dr Lee, Dr Neethling, Dr Roe and Dr Jocum at Medicross Saxby in Centurion recently received the Bestmed Top Ten Network Family Practitioners annual certificate of excellence. 

“We are truly honoured that our achievement has been recognised in this way. We are dedicated to providing the highest possible level of service to the community we care for, and it is gratifying to see this reflected with such an award,” he says.

Medicross Saxby was rated on a list of criteria including: recommended to family and friends; excellent communication; customer service; appropriateness of diagnostic testing; and excels at doctor-patient relationship.

“We wish to thank all our patients for their ongoing support. We will continue to strive to live the Medicross values of care, dignity, participation, truth and compassion as we serve the healthcare needs of this special community, now and into the future,” concludes Dr Jocum.

Medicross Saxby opened in 2003. The practice offers a range of healthcare services, including:

  • Medical practitioners
  • Dentists
  • Oral hygienist
  • Psychologist
  • Optometrist
  • Audiologists
  • Physiotherapist
  • Dermatologist
  • X-Rays
  • Clicks pharmacy

 

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Notes to editor

Looking for a medical appointment? Netcare appointmed™ will make appointments for YOU with specialists practising at Netcare hospitals, GPs and dentists at Medicross medical and dental centres, and specialists at Akeso mental health facilities. Simply request an appointment online at www.netcare.co.za/Request-a-medical-appointment or phone Netcare appointmed™  on 0860 555 565, Mondays to Fridays between 08:00 and 17:00.
 
To find out more about the services offered through Netcare hospitals and other of the Group’s facilities, please visit www.netcare.co.za or contact the Netcare customer service centre either by email at [email protected] or phone 0860 NETCARE (0860 638 2273). Note that the centre operates Mondays to Fridays from 08:00 to 16:00.

For more information on this media release, contact MNA at the contact details listed below.

Issued by:            MNA on behalf of Medicross Saxby
Contact:    Martina Nicholson, Meggan Saville, Estene Lotriet-Vorster or Clemmy Forsthofer
Telephone:    (011) 469 3016
Email:    [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected] or [email protected]