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Department of Health on its Strategic and Annual Performance Plan
17 Apr 2015
The Department of Health (DOH) presented the Strategic and Annual Performance Plans (APP). The main challenges which this Department was working to address included the improvement of audit outcomes, through better administration, improved training of nurses, and the re-launching of effective education campaigns in the fight against HIV and TB, ...
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National Health Laboratory Services Strategic and Annual Performance Plan 2015
24 Mar 2015
The National Health Laboratory Services (NHLS) briefed the Committee on its Strategic and Annual Plans for 2015/16. It was created in 2001 from a merger and is the diagnostic pathology service for the public sector in South Africa, dealing with more than 80% of the country’s population through 274 laboratories ...
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Department of Health on its 2nd and 3rd quarterly reports; DPME on Health Department performance outcomes
18 Mar 2015
The Department of Health (DoH) briefed the Committee on its performance in Quarters 2 and 3, followed by an evaluation report presented by the Department of Performance Monitoring and Evaluation (DPME), explaining how it categorised performance, and that it was done to assess how the sector as a whole was ...
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Medical Innovation Bill: Medicines Control Council briefing, in presence of Deputy Minister
11 Mar 2015
The Medicines Control Council (MCC) briefed the Committee on the Medical Innovation Bill and explained, to put the Bill into context, the current legal framework regarding controlled access to cannabis and other drugs. The discussion was centred on the use of cannabis for medical purposes. In South Africa, it is ...
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Medicines and Related Substances Amendment Bill [B6-2014]: deliberations
11 Mar 2015
The Portfolio Committee deliberated on all the amended clauses of the Medicines and Related Substances Amendment Bill [B6-2014]. The focus was largely on the definitions of the Bill, with particular emphasis on the inclusion of the policy development advisory function on “foodstuffs and cosmetics” in Clause 1, Section 1(e) and ...
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Traditional and Natural Health Alliance submission on Medicines and Related Substances Amendment Bill: Department & legal advisors response
4 Mar 2015
The Department of Health and Parliamentary Legal Advisors presented their responses to a further submission, heard in the previous week, from the Traditional and Natural Health Alliance (TNHA). The Department of Health (DoH) clarified the definition of traditional medicine, and how the regulation of the products, practice and profession of ...
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Medicines and Related Substances Amendment Bill [B6-2014]: Traditional and Natural Health Alliance submission
25 Feb 2015
The Traditional and Natural Health Alliance said that traditional medicine is much safer and healthier than medicine containing drugs. Australia has listed their medicines as either 'registered drugs' or 'listed products' and that their definition of complementary medicine includes herbs, vitamins, minerals, nutritional supplements, homeopathic and certain aromatherapy under the ...
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Medicines and Related Substances Amendment Bill [B6-2014]: deliberations
18 Feb 2015
The Committee firstly discussed a request from the Traditional and Natural Health Alliance (TNHA) to make another presentation on the Medicines and Controlled Substances Amendment Bill, since it had been apparent from the last presentation that this body had not understood the nature of the public hearings and had been ...
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Medicines and Related Substances Amendment Bill: Further responses by Department of Health
26 Nov 2014
The Committee met briefly to continue to hear the responses of the Department of Health (the Department) on the submissions made by different stakeholders during the public hearings on the Medicines and Related Substances Amendment Bill.
The Department did not support the proposal that the Chairperson of the Board should ...
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Mr and Mrs Lowe on organ donation in South Africa
12 Nov 2014
The Committee met to hear a briefing by the parents of Jenna Lowe, who has been diagnosed with a rare disease called Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension (PAH) and is currently awaiting a bilateral lung transplant, on creating awareness for organ donation in South Africa.
Mr Stuart Lowe and Mrs Gabi Lowe ...