Suggest candidates for the Board of Trustees election

Your Trustees can only serve on LA Health Medical Scheme’s Board of Trustees for a set time. Because of this, we need your help to choose eight Trustees in 2018. The Board of Trustees represent you and make sure the Scheme is administered properly.

The process of collecting names of people who are willing to stand for election is called nomination. If you are the main member and know of someone who would make a good Trustee, please nominate them. The person you nominate has to be willing to stand for election. Simply fill in the official nomination form we will be emailing or posting to you and send it back to the Scheme’s auditor no later than 12:00 on 20 March 2018. You cannot nominate yourself.

Who can you name as a candidate?

The person you nominate (nominee) must:

• Be a main member of LA Health Medical Scheme
• Have a paid-up membership
• Be willing to be nominated as a candidate for election
• Be fit and proper to manage the business of a medical scheme in accordance with the relevant legislation
• Accept responsibility for acting as a trustee
• Be available to attend meetings of the Board of Trustees and any special meetings during working hours
• Be readily contactable by telephone/cellphone and email
• Consent to an investigation regarding credit and criminal record.

You cannot suggest the following people as candidates

• A main member younger than 21 years
• An employee, director, officer, consultant, contractor or any person contracted by the Scheme to provide administrative, marketing or managed healthcare services, or of its holding company, subsidiary, joint venture or associate
• A broker
• The auditor of the Scheme
• Any employee of the Scheme
• A main member who is mentally ill or incapable of managing their own affairs
• A main member who is declared insolvent or has surrendered their estate for the benefit of their creditors
• A main member who is convicted, whether in the Republic of South Africa or elsewhere, of theft, fraud, forgery or uttering a forged document, or perjury
• A main member who is removed by court from any office of trust on account of misconduct
• A main member who is disqualified under any law from carrying on their profession.

Let us know if you have questions

If you have any questions or queries regarding the nomination process, please call the office of the Principal Officer on 021 914 2103 or email rdutoit@lahealth.co.za