Catch it early. Keep the edge.
Hidden risk doesn't send a warning. It sends a resignation, a disability claim, or an ambulance, usually months after it could've been caught in five minutes. PrimaEdge screens your workforce before that happens.
Undiagnosed hypertension, unmanaged diabetes and untreated anxiety don't announce themselves on a Monday morning. They show up months later as absenteeism, disability claims, presenteeism and, eventually, a resignation letter. By the time it reaches HR, it's already expensive.
PrimaEdge Health exists to move that discovery earlier, into a five-minute conversation with a registered nurse in your boardroom, canteen or car park, instead of an emergency room six months from now.
"After 30 years of treating diseases that never had to happen, I have stopped waiting. I made the decision to screen for the risk before it becomes a disease, and to pick up disease early, when it's still easy to treat. The aim is to manage the spark before it turns into a veld fire."
Long before PrimaEdge had a name, its founder had three decades of clinical practice behind them: years spent in hospital wards and private practice, watching the same preventable conditions arrive fully grown instead of caught early. Hypertension nobody had flagged in time. A glucose reading that had quietly climbed for years. A depression that only surfaced once it had already cost someone their job.
None of it was anyone's fault, exactly. Occupational health, where it existed at all, was reactive by design. It responded to an incident rather than catching risk while it was still cheap and manageable to treat.
Two years ago, after thirty years in clinical practice, that frustration turned into a decision: build the system that had been missing. PrimaEdge Health started as a single on-site screening day, run to the same clinical standard as a hospital ward, not a tick-box wellness event.
Because its founder already had three decades of relationships across medicine, the team came together fast. A registered nurse joined to lead day-to-day screening. A counsellor followed, for mental health. A dietician and biokineticist joined soon after, so a flagged risk factor led to an actual referral pathway, not a pamphlet. In two years, PrimaEdge grew from one doctor's decision into a full care pathway: screening, chronic disease management, mental wellbeing, nutrition, movement, executive health and HR reporting, all under one roof.
That's still the order things happen in at PrimaEdge: a clinician identifies the gap first, and the business model is built to serve it, not the other way around.
PrimaEdge Health is founded, run to the same clinical standard as a hospital ward, not a tick-box wellness event.
Thirty years of medical relationships mean chronic disease referral pathways for hypertension, diabetes and cholesterol are in place almost immediately, not built up slowly over years.
A registered counsellor joins the roster and PHQ-2/GAD-2 screening becomes part of every visit. Mental health gets assessed with the same rigour as blood pressure.
A registered dietician and biokineticist join, so a flagged risk factor leads to an actual referral pathway, not just a pamphlet.
Screening, chronic disease management, mental wellbeing, nutrition, movement, executive health and HR reporting, all under one roof, with the PrimaEdge app monitoring biometrics between visits.
Every reading is interpreted by a registered health professional. A screening kiosk isn't a substitute for a trained clinical eye.
Individual results stay with the employee and the clinical team. That separation isn't a policy promise. It's built into how our systems work.
Clinical thresholds, documented results and an audit trail on every reading, not a wellness vibe with no way to check the work.
A flagged result triggers a fast-tracked nurse follow-up and a referral pathway, never just a number on a printout.
Confirmed today: our founder and Medical Director. The rest of our clinical roster is growing, we'll introduce each person here once their profile is confirmed, rather than show placeholder names.

Founded PrimaEdge Health two years ago after three decades in clinical practice. Personally oversees clinical governance across every activation.
Every clinician who joins is registered with the relevant professional body. Profiles go live here as each hire is confirmed.
The PrimaEdge app is where every screening, follow-up and export actually happens, backed by one shared MySQL 8.4 database. The website itself never writes clinical data; the app is the only way it enters the database.
Blood pressure, BMI, full lipogram, glucose, smoking status and PHQ-2/GAD-2, each reading server-side risk-scored and logged the moment it's captured.
Results are portable across employers and medical schemes, so a member never starts from zero at a new job.
Nurse portal, admin export and population insights, with a real SHA-256 hash persisted on every batch submitted to a medical scheme.
Members log their own treatment and get daily dose reminders and low-stock alerts, while the nurse portal surfaces an adherence alert when doses are being missed.
A new corporate client's medical scheme or HR roster is uploaded once and becomes real member records; each employee then activates their own account and sets their own PIN the first time they open the app.
"Launch the App" opens the real, database-backed product for members, nurses, admins and HR. "Download the Offline Demo" saves a self-contained copy that runs in any browser with no login and no connection, useful for a quick walkthrough, but its data stays on that device only and is never written to the shared database. Native iOS and Android apps are in progress; store links will go live at launch.
None of it shows up on a single line item. All of it shows up eventually. Pick your seat at the table.
And it's costing the South African economy R161 billion every year.
Workforce health risk is a cost your income statement absorbs quietly. Companies with strong employee wellbeing have been shown to outperform standard market benchmarks over time (University of Oxford Wellbeing Research Centre). Wellbeing isn't just the right thing to do; it correlates with stronger firm performance.
Burnout, stress and unmanaged chronic disease are silent attrition drivers. A clinically credible wellness programme is increasingly one of the benefits employees weigh most when deciding whether to stay.
Governance codes like King IV increasingly expect measurable, reportable employee wellbeing data. PrimaEdge delivers an HPCSA-aligned, POPIA-conscious, auditable programme built for that scrutiny.
Annual wellness days and low EAP engagement are not a strategy.
Stop managing separate EAP, screening, mental health and chronic disease vendors. PrimaEdge delivers biometric screening, chronic disease management, mental wellbeing & EAP, and executive health under one contract, one account manager.
The average EAP sits at 3–5% utilisation. Our on-site clinical visits plus virtual follow-up are designed to lift real participation well beyond that. We'll agree a specific target with you before launch, not promise a generic number.
A quarterly report shows anonymised absenteeism-linked risk trends, not just attendance numbers, so HR walks into a budget meeting with evidence, not anecdotes.
Illustrative example: at 15% daily absenteeism on 4,000 employees, that's roughly 600 people absent, every day.
At an illustrative daily salary cost of R1,200, ~600 daily absences on a 4,000-employee organisation is roughly R720,000 a day in payroll drain alone. We'll build the real number from your own headcount and salary data, not a generic industry figure.
Several SA medical schemes offer wellness-linked rebates for completed biometric screening. Every reading carries a SHA-256 audit hash for a clean, verifiable submission trail. The exact rebate value depends on your scheme's current terms, which we'll confirm with you before modelling any number.
PrimaEdge runs on leased on-site clinical capacity, not owned infrastructure, so you're budgeting a predictable quarterly programme cost, not absorbing a surprise capex line or an unbudgeted claims spike later.
Figures reflect third-party research current at time of publishing and are provided for context. They describe general SA workforce trends, not PrimaEdge client outcomes.
One continuous pathway, not a once-off health day that's forgotten by Friday.
On-site biometric and mental health screening across ten markers, delivered by a registered nurse, no clinic visit, no time off required.
Every raw reading is scored against clinical thresholds the moment it's captured, surfacing risk before it becomes symptomatic.
High-risk results are routed into a nurse-led intervention queue and, where needed, referred on for chronic disease management.
Monthly education, virtual follow-up and repeat screening keep risk down long after the first appointment ends.
A single screening visit covers the physical and mental health indicators most strongly linked to long-term cost and risk.
Two-reading average, flagged instantly against clinical thresholds.
Rapid finger-prick capillary glucose testing on the day.
A three-month view of average blood glucose, for earlier diabetes detection.
A fast, reliable proxy for visceral fat and metabolic risk.
Complete cholesterol panel: LDL, HDL, triglycerides and total ratio.
Height and weight, calculated and contextualised on the spot.
A validated two-question screen, opening a confidential conversation, not a diagnosis.
A validated two-question anxiety screen, with a warm handoff into support when needed.
A simple, non-judgemental smoking status check that opens the door to cessation support.
A rapid finger-prick reading that screens for anaemia and iron deficiency on the day.
Mix and match by site, by season, or run the full suite year-round.
A full on-site screening event once a quarter: booths, nurses, and prompt results for every employee who attends.
Learn more →Structured referral pathways for employees already living with hypertension, diabetes or high cholesterol, so risk gets managed, not just noted.
Learn more →Rolling, embedded screening for larger sites: no once-off event required, just a standing PrimaEdge presence.
Learn more →Confidential counselling, an employee assistance line, and PHQ-2/GAD-2 screening built into every visit.
Learn more →A more comprehensive, private assessment for leadership teams: deeper panels, longer consultations, discreet scheduling.
Learn more →Remote check-ins between screening cycles, so a flagged result doesn't sit untouched for a full quarter.
Learn more →Employees flagged for weight, glucose or cholesterol risk are referred to a registered dietician for tailored nutrition support, not just a pamphlet.
Learn more →Referral to a registered biokineticist for employees managing heart conditions, diabetes, obesity, back pain or postural issues through guided, clinically supervised movement.
Learn more →Every month, PrimaEdge runs a short, on-site or virtual session breaking down a single condition: what it is, how it's caught early, and what your employees can actually do about it. Knowledge is the cheapest intervention we offer.
Topics rotate through hypertension, diabetes, cholesterol, depression & anxiety, healthy weight, and tobacco cessation, timed to reinforce whatever your last screening day just uncovered.
Every quarter, HR receives a fully anonymised, aggregated report: the shape of your organisation's risk, without a single identifiable record in sight. Enough to justify budget, target next quarter's education topic, and prove the programme is working.
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