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Compensation Commissioner for Occupational Diseases 2012/13 & 2013/14 Annual Reports
6 Mar 2019
The Portfolio Committee on Health was briefed by the Compensation Commissioner for Occupational Diseases (CCOD) on its 2012/13 and 2013/14 Annual Reports.
The lack of data and inability of the CCOD to produce a complete audited report was due to the mismanagement under the previous Commissioner before Dr. Barry Kistnasamy ...
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Committee Minutes
27 Feb 2019
The Portfolio Committee on Health considered and adopted 15 sets of minutes dating as far back as May 2018. Most were approved with no changes and a few with minor ones.
Members commented that it has been a long time since the meetings and that was making it difficult for ...
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Committee Report on Cuba study tour
20 Feb 2019
The Committee discussed and amended their Report on the oversight visit to Cuba from 1 October to 5 October 2018. The purpose of the short visit was to see how South Africa could learn from Cuba in terms of their Primary Health Care system.
A substantial amount of time was ...
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National Health Laboratory Services Amendment Bill: adoption
13 Feb 2019
The amendments to the National Health Laboratory Service Amendment Bill (NHLS) by the Select Committee on Social Services were discussed.
Members mainly discussed amendments to Clauses five, six, nine and 15 which were concerned with provincial representation technicalities, dissolution of the Board and the appointment of the Board and Laboratory ...
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Nursing colleges reopening & curriculum
5 Dec 2018
The Committee was briefed by the National Department of Health (NDoH) on its state of readiness to implement the new nursing curriculum and training programmes in 2020. Pertinent issues raised included the progress made by the Department in rolling out the new curriculum, and how it intended to address the ...
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High Level Panel recommendations: Minister of Health briefing
21 Nov 2018
Report of the meeting to follow.
Health
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 ...