Answers
Straight answers to common questions.
For clinicians, referrers, hospitals and funders. If your question is not here, email us.
The care
What is Network One Health?
A health services integrator. It organises providers, hospital resources, care coordinators, clinical protocols, navigation, contracting and data into governed women's-health programmes, so care is joined up rather than fragmented.
How does the maternity pathway work?
The mother is booked between weeks 8 and 12, with her risk stratified at the first visit. Low-risk care is midwife-led, with specialist review on written criteria. She delivers with the team at the partner hospital, then has postnatal care to six weeks, including a Pap smear through ColpoCare.
What does the maternity fee include?
Scheduled antenatal visits, specialist review when indicated, birth planning, delivery in hospital with the team, the planned vaginal or caesarean pathway, routine investigations and scans, antenatal classes, and postnatal follow-up to six weeks. Escalated complications, special diagnostics and neonatal intensive care sit outside the bundle.
How is maternity care priced?
One fee covers the episode. The amount depends on the site and whether the birth is vaginal or caesarean, and it is confirmed after the week-12 assessment. Cash and medical-aid pathways are available, and Discovery members can use the global fee where it applies.
What is ColpoCare?
A cervical screening and colposcopy service. It finds and treats early changes on the cervix before they become cancer, in a single see-and-treat visit. Every maternity patient is offered a Pap smear at her six-week postnatal visit, and screening is open to other women too.
Clinicians
How do I refer a patient?
No formal letter is needed. Call, email or WhatsApp us directly. We keep you informed, and we return the patient to your care after the relevant episode.
Can I join the network as a provider?
Yes. Independent clinicians keep their own practice and join under a clear agreement that sets out the role, payment and escalation upfront. See join.hpmanyonga.co.za for the disciplines we are recruiting.
How would I be paid if I join?
We start fee-for-service and graduate to a structured model: a retainer for the lead obstetrician for governance and leadership, and sessional fees for other disciplines and grades, benchmarked to a recognised medical-scheme rate and adapted by site. You are paid for the work you do. Delegated clinical work is paid; referrals themselves are not.
Do I need to invest capital?
No. There is no capital to put in and no rooms or admin to fund yourself. We carry the pathway, the contracts, the coordination and the administration.
When should I refer for colposcopy?
Refer on an abnormal Pap or positive HPV result, known or suspected CIN, a suspicious-looking cervix, post-coital, postmenopausal or heavy bleeding, persistent or foul-smelling discharge, vulval warts, or to evaluate a survivor of sexual assault. The ColpoCare page sets out what to do with each result, aligned to the 2026 National Cervical Cancer Elimination Framework.
Hospitals
How does a hospital partnership work?
You supply the facility, ward and theatre. We supply the maternity pathway, governance, provider credentialing, claims architecture, data definitions and quality reporting. We agree the right arrangement before discussing commercials, and the clinical pathway stays the same either way.
What does Network One Health bring that we cannot build ourselves?
A governed maternity pathway that already runs, with the contracting logic, data definitions and outcome reporting in place. You convert maternity capacity into governed programme volume without building the model from scratch.
Funders
How do you control quality and cost?
Risk stratification, structured visits, clear escalation, claims discipline and standardised outcome reporting. We measure maternal and neonatal safety, utilisation and patient experience, and we report on a fixed cadence.
Do you have outcome data?
Yes. We have run a maternity service since 2022 and we report maternal and neonatal outcomes against defined measures. We share the detail with funders under a shared data dictionary.