Deputy Speaker, the ANC welcomes the launch of the Academy for Leadership and Management in Health Care, which seeks to address management skills gaps at all levels of the health sector, including clinical and hospital management. Hence, one of the academy's strategic tasks is to develop a national management and leadership competence framework for the health sector, based on a needs analysis.
This initiative is as a result of a follow-up of a study commissioned by the Minister of Health in 2011, to review competency levels of hospital chief executive officers. This revealed that a significant proportion of chief executive officers did not have the requisite leadership and management competencies required to run successful institutions. Thus, the study forms part of the move of overhauling the health system in South Africa.
The main purpose of the academy is to address the skills gaps at all levels, including clinical and hospital management. This initiative is in line with and reaffirms the ANC manifesto assertion that management and leadership skills at all levels of the health system will be improved, as well as that the national standards of quality care will be met and an explicit accountability framework will be ensured.
Madam Speaker, on the basis of the court decision, and the fact that we have got the results today, we request that the Leader of the Opposition resign. Thank you. [Applause.]