NCOP
FOR WRITTEN REPLY
QUESTION NO. 605
DATE OF PUBLICATION IN INTERNAL QUESTION PAPER: 18 November 2011
(INTERNAL QUESTION PAPER NO. 38)
Mrs E C van Lingen (DA-EC) to ask the Minister of Health:
(1) Whether all hospital managers have the required qualifications for
the positions they were appointed in; if not, on what basis were they
appointed; if so, what are the relevant details;
(2) how many hospital managers have been trained by his department in the
past three financial years;
(3) whether any assessments have been done on managers (a) before and (b)
after such training; if not, why not; if so, what are the relevant
findings of these assessments;
(4) whether his department has any (a) plans and (b) programmes in place
to train other managers; if not, why not; if so, what (i) plans, (ii)
programmes and (iii) what are the further relevant details?
CW753E
REPLY:
CEOs are appointed based on the Public Service Regulations related to the
requirements of the job. The job requirements determined the qualifications
in line with stated regulations. The terms of reference for the DBSA were
forwarded to this parliament in as a response to Question 2183 by Hon
Waters. The DBSA work helped the National Health Council to effect the
National Health Act provisions for norms and standards for the designation
of health facilities minimum requirements for management for such.
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