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Bio-economy Strategy update: Department of Science and Technology briefing
27 May 2015
The Department of Science and Technology (DST) briefed the Portfolio Committee on its Bio–economy strategy, saying that this had been in place for some time and was built around coordinated efforts that recognised three key economic areas likely to benefit, namely, agriculture, health and industry and environment. In 2014 the ...
Health
Committee Report on Department of Health 2015/16 budget
29 Apr 2015
The Portfolio Committee on Health met to adopt the draft report on the Strategic Plan (2015/16 to 2019/20), Annual Performance Plan92015/16 to 2017/18) and Budget vote 16 of the Department of Health.
The Committee made a number of suggestions for changes to the wording, grammar and typographical errors in the ...
Health
District hospitals and clinics in Limpopo: Availability of medicines, equipment, role of health district officers: Public Service Commission briefing
22 Apr 2015
The Public Service Commission (PSC) reported to the Committee that in the 2012/13 financial year it had conducted inspections into eight hospitals in six districts in Limpopo and Mpumalanga to investigate the availability of medicines and medical equipment, and the role of district health offices. A PSC Commission had led ...
Health
Council for Medical Schemes (CMS) on Annual Performance Plan & Strategic Plan 2015
21 Apr 2015
The Council for Medical Schemes (CMS) presented its Strategic plan, Annual Performance Plan and Budget. CMS was created in terms of the Medical Schemes Act 131 of 1998. It regulated the private healthcare industry medical schemes, administrators, brokers and managed care providers. It aimed to protect the interests of the ...
Health
Department of Health on its Strategic and Annual Performance Plan
17 Apr 2015
The Department of Health (DOH) presented the Strategic and Annual Performance Plans (APP). The main challenges which this Department was working to address included the improvement of audit outcomes, through better administration, improved training of nurses, and the re-launching of effective education campaigns in the fight against HIV and TB, ...
Health
Department of Health Annual Performance Plan/Budget: input by Auditor-General & Financial and Fiscal Commission
16 Apr 2015
The officials from the office of the Auditor General outlined the auditing process and proceeded to explain the findings from an interim review that was performed to assess the targets and indicators which the Department of Health, in particular, was using.
The presentation was not well received by the Committee ...
Health
Medical Research Council, Council for Medical Schemes & Office of Health Standards Compliance on their 2015 Strategic Plans
15 Apr 2015
The South African Medical Research Council, the Council for Medical Schemes and the Office of Health Standards Compliance briefed the Committee on their strategic plans, annual performance plans and budgets.
The South African Medical Research Council’s strategic goals were to administer health research effectively and efficiently, and lead the generation ...
Health
Compensation Commission for Occupational Diseases on its 2015/16 Strategic & Annual Performance Plan
25 Mar 2015
Within its Strategic Plan, the Compensation Commission for Occupational Diseases (CCOD), detailed legacy issues, achievements, future activities, resources and constraints of the Department. On the matter of legacy, it noted that multiple policy and legal frameworks across the Departments of Labour, Health and Mineral Resources, complicated caring for the welfare ...
Health
National Health Laboratory Services Strategic and Annual Performance Plan 2015
24 Mar 2015
The National Health Laboratory Services (NHLS) briefed the Committee on its Strategic and Annual Plans for 2015/16. It was created in 2001 from a merger and is the diagnostic pathology service for the public sector in South Africa, dealing with more than 80% of the country’s population through 274 laboratories ...
Health
Department of Health on its 2nd and 3rd quarterly reports; DPME on Health Department performance outcomes
18 Mar 2015
The Department of Health (DoH) briefed the Committee on its performance in Quarters 2 and 3, followed by an evaluation report presented by the Department of Performance Monitoring and Evaluation (DPME), explaining how it categorised performance, and that it was done to assess how the sector as a whole was ...