The Department has developed a specialised planning tool that provides data per district and contains detailed information such as the location and number of health infrastructure facilities, number of health specialists in each district and the spatial mapping of health facilities. The data then serves as base information for the Department's planning framework which focuses on a number of areas which include accessibility of health facilities within each district, the disease burden in each district and the workload-staffing ratio within each of the country's 52 districts. The Department then makes this spatial information available to provinces to assist them with the alignment of plans with needs and enable grant allocations to be directed to areas where resources are most needed.