Dr Warrick Sive

Dr Warrick Sive currently heads the Clinical Governance Division at the Wits Health Consortium and is a Visiting Senior Lecturer in the School of Clinical Medicine (Wits University). 

He is an Honorary Member of the South African WHO-FIC (World Health Organisation -Family of International. Classifications) Collaborating Centre -hosted by the South African Medical Research Council though which he contributes to local and international efforts pertaining to the WHO-FIC  ICD-11, ICF, and ICHI coding systems. He is also involved in the  WHO ATC/DDD coding system for pharmaceuticals.

Warrick serves on a number of  WHO-FIC Committees: Family Development Committee (FDC), the Morbidity reference Group (MbRG), the Education and Implementation Committee (EIC) and the recently constituted Health Intervention Review Group (HIRG).

Warrick served on various student and student-faculty committees during his university years, focussing on the political circumstances which denied access to appropriate healthcare to the majority of South Africans.

Early in his career, Warrick worked at the Alexandra Health Clinic. He later was a Medical Officer at the Institute for Aviation Medicine were he also lectured and published in the field of Aviation Medicine. Subsequently he held the post of Senior Medical superintendent at the now Charlotte Maxeke Academic Hospital where his interest in Clinical Governance grew.

He was one of the first two South Africans to attend a Patient Classification Systems International annual Conference (Casemix/DRG) and subsequently moved to what is now Life Healthcare where he was involved in care quality, coding and in negotiating the first DRG based contract in South Africa.

Warrick subsequently held the position of Medical Director at Liberty Health, where he was responsible for provider network development across various countries on the continent. This included the development of bespoke coding systems to cater for the different countries and providers and the development of a DRG grouper.

Dr Sive holds a BA, BSocSci (Hons), MBChB, MSc and an MBA degrees. His interests span clinical governance, health system efficiency, including the use of artificial intelligence, and the strategic use of coding in healthcare management to facilitate quality, sustainability and access to healthcare for all.