Health
Compensation Commissioner for Occupational Diseases challenges: Minister of Health and Commissioner's briefings
7 Sep 2016
The Minister of Health and the Compensation Commissioner for Occupational Diseases briefed the Committee on the background to and historic and current challenges with the CCOD. There were substantial legacy challenges from 1912 onwards, which arose partially from the discriminatory systems and legislation, but the Department of Health, which had ...
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Department of Health on its 4th quarter 2015/16 report, in presence of Minister
31 Aug 2016
The Committee was briefed on the 2015/16 fourth quarter report and the Conditional Grants expenditure in the Department of Health (NDOH), in the presence of the Minister, who also gave input and answered some questions from the Committee. Programme 1 dealt with the administration of the Department of Health. Performance ...
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Human resources & community health workers: Western Cape, KwaZulu Natal & Limpopo; Infrastructure projects; Financial management; Ideal Clinic Initiative
18 Aug 2016
The Provincial Departments of Health in Western Cape, KwaZulu Natal and Limpopo presented updates to the Committee, briefing Members on matters ranging from personnel issues, particularly the attempts to use Community Health workers, financial management, supply chain, the developments on audits, accommodation and the move towards the Ideal Clinic. Members' ...
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Human resources & community health workers: Eastern Cape, Free State; Northern Cape; Infrastructure projects; Financial management; Ideal Clinic Initiative - pm
17 Aug 2016
The Portfolio Committee met with three provincial health departments – from the Eastern Cape, Free State and Northern Cape – to be briefed on human resources, with an emphasis on community health workers; infrastructure projects; financial management, particularly on issues that had been raised by the Auditor General and their ...
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Human resources & community health workers: Gauteng, Mpumalanga, North West; Infrastructure projects; Financial management; Ideal Clinic Initiative
16 Aug 2016
Documents awaited: Gauteng Department of Health presentation
The Gauteng, Mpumalanga, and North West provincial Departments of Health presented on the respective audit findings and interventions, the ideal clinic initiative, and the community health workers’ human resources challenges within their provinces.
They outlined the steps which they had undertaken to address the ...
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Committee Report on Health Budget
5 May 2016
The Committee’s report on the Annual Performance Plan of the Department of Health, its entities and budget vote 16 was carefully considered by Members. Most of the issues identified for correction were minor.
The report was adopted by Mr A Mahlalela (ANC) and seconded by Mr A Shaik Emam (NFP). ...
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Council for Medical Schemes & National Health Laboratory Services on their 2016 Strategic & Annual Performance plan
20 Apr 2016
The alignment of the goals of the Council for Medical Scheme (CMS) with those of the Department of Health and the National Development Plan (NDP) was outlined. This included the CMS initiating a process to revise the prescribed minimum benefits (PMB) package to include more primary health benefits and the ...
The Minister of Health was present for and participated in presentations by the Department of Health (DOH) and two of its entities on their Annual Performance Plan and budget for 2016/17. The first briefing was from the Compensation Commission for Occupational Diseases (CCOD), which was set up to grant compensation ...
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Department of Health 2016 plans and budget: Financial & Fiscal Commission analysis; Medical Research Council on 2016 Annual Performance Plan and budget
6 Apr 2016
The Financial and Fiscal Commission (FFC) provided an analysis of the budget and strategic plan of the Department of Health and its entities, providing some statistics on the spending and grants. It was noted that South Africa spent 8% of its Gross Domestic Product on health, on par with spending ...
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Information sharing on health with New Zealand delegation
16 Mar 2016
The Committee welcomed an information sharing with a delegation of Members of Parliament from New Zealand on their way to a conference in Zambia. The Chairperson explained the structure of South Africa's government briefly and expressed the importance of the Portfolio Committee on Health in their role of ensuring the ...