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High Level Panel recommendations: Minister of Health briefing
21 Nov 2018
Report of the meeting to follow.
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High Level Panel Recommendations for Health Sector: Prof Shisana briefing
7 Nov 2018
The Committee was briefed by Professor Olive Shisana, Head of the High Level Panel (HLP), on the state of the health sector in South Africa, and the challenges faced with the implementation of the National Health Insurance (NHI) scheme.
She said those with the worst access to health care were ...
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Committee Report on KwaZulu-Natal oversight
31 Oct 2018
The Committee discussed the report on its oversight visit to KwaZulu-Natal (KZN) from August 14 to 17, which listed the health facilities which had been visited, and the successes and challenges encountered at each. The observations and findings covered matters involving human resources, infrastructure, laundry services, high teenage pregnancies in ...
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Health Budgetary Review and Recommendations Report
24 Oct 2018
2018 Budget Review & Recommendations Reports – BRRR
After lengthy deliberation and numerous amendments to its draft BRR report, the Committee adopted the final document. Chief among the issues discussed were the following:
Stronger, more action-oriented and consequent management driven recommendations should henceforth be the rule of thumb when the ...
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Department of Health & Compensation Commissioner for Occupational Diseases 2017/18 Annual Reports, with Minister & Deputy Minister
17 Oct 2018
The Compensation Commissioner for Occupational Diseases reported an increase in benefits as 1 April 2018 and a decrease in levies, which had resulted in a significantly lower surplus. The audited financial statements had moved from being a disclaimer opinion to a revenue qualification by the Auditor General ...
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Medical Research Council & Council for Medical Schemes 2017/18 Annual Reports
16 Oct 2018
The South African Medical Research Council presented its Annual Report for the 2017/18 financial year. The Council confirmed that its work was guided by the burden of diseases and presented to Members data on the leading causes of death in South Africa as at 2012. The Council ...
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North West Department of Health status report; Committee Reports: Provincial Hospital Services; KZN Oversight; with Deputy Minister
12 Sep 2018
The North West Department of Health said they had managed to achieve 63% of their performance targets, compared to the 60% achievement in the previous financial year. Challenges which had prevented them from achieving more of their targets were the labour unrest and industrial action that had taken place, the ...
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National Strategic Plan on HIV, TB and STIs: SANAC briefing
5 Sep 2018
The South African National AIDS Council (SANAC) briefed the Portfolio Committee on Health on the National Strategic Plan for HIV, TB and STI for 2017-2022. There has been a lot of successes in the fight against the HIV, TB and STI epidemics such as the number of HIV-related and TB-related ...
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Department of Health Quarter 1 performance
29 Aug 2018
The Department of Health (DOH) presented the first quarter report on its performance and expenditure in implementing its six programmes, and indicated that there had been a general trend of under-spending.
The e-health strategy had been revised, including the introduction of a new tradition where consultations would occur. The ...
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Health facilities inspection findings: Office of Health Standards Compliance 2016/17 report
5 Jun 2018
The Portfolio Committee met to discuss the annual inspection report of the Office of Health Standards Compliance (OHSC), which described some of the challenges faced by health establishments (HEs) in the provinces, municipalities and districts across the country.
The presentation focused on the aims of the annual inspection report, the ...