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Health
Committee Reports on SAHRC Report + State of Health Care services in country
1 Nov 2017
Documents handed: Report of the Portfolio Committee on Health on the state of health care services in South Africa. [The Committee Reports available under Tabled Committee Reports once published]
The Members of the Portfolio Committee on Health met to adopt its report on the state of health care services in South ...
Basic Education
Early Childhood Development implementation: Basic Education, Social Development, Health Departments inputs
31 Oct 2017
The Portfolio Committees of three departments -- Basic Education, Social Development and Health --came together in a joint meeting coordinated by the Portfolio Committee for Basic Education to discuss the implementation of Early Childhood Development (ECD) programmes. A joint presentation was made which reflected situational analysis of Early Childhood Development ...
Health
Committee Reports on Mental Health & National Health Laboratory Services oversight
25 Oct 2017
The Portfolio Committee on Health met to adopt its report the Committee’s report on the presentations made to it by seven Provincial Departments of Health: Eastern Cape, Western Cape, Free State, Limpopo, North West, Mpumalanga, Northern Cape and KwaZulu-Natal. It also adopted its report on the oversight visit made by ...
Health
Health Budgetary Review and Recommendations Report
18 Oct 2017
The Portfolio Committee on Health met to adopt its Draft Budgetary Review and Recommendations Report (BRRR) which covered the Department of Health and its entities. Members raised a number of grammatical amendments and changes to be effected to editing of the Report. There was discussion on sources of information in ...
Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs
Integrated Urban Development Framework: COGTA deputy minister briefing to Social Services cluster
11 Oct 2017
The Deputy Minister of Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs (COGTA) briefed the Social Services Cluster of Portfolio Committees on the Integrated Urban Development Framework (IUDF), accompanied by the Deputy Ministers of Economic Development and Transport.
The briefing touched on the following aspects: urbanisation and immigration in South Africa; legacy of ...
Health
Department of Health + Compensation Commissioner for Occupational Diseases 2016/17 Annual Report
10 Oct 2017
The Portfolio Committee on Health concluded its Budget Review and Recommendation Report (BRRR) process with presentations by the Compensation Commissioner for Occupational Diseases (CCOD) and the National Department of Health (NDOH) on their annual performance for the past financial year.
The inability of the CCOD to provide ...
Health
NHLS, Office of Health Standards Compliance + Council for Medical Schemes 2016/17 Annual Report
4 Oct 2017
Annual Reports 2016/17
The National Health Laboratory Services (NHLS) was not represented by the Chief Executive Officer and the Chief Finance Officer as they were suspended and disciplinary hearings would commence this month. They were suspended alongside the Internal Audit Manager, Supply Chain Manager and the facilities managers. The ...
Health
National and Provincial Health Departments: Auditor-General + FCC input, Medical Research Council Annual Report
3 Oct 2017
The Portfolio Committee of Health was briefed by the Auditor-General of South Africa (AGSA) on the audit outcomes of the Department of Health (DOH) and its entities; and provincial departments of health. The Financial and Fiscal Commission (FFC) also briefed the Committee on the budgets, spending patterns and recommendations to ...
Health
Medical Innovation Bill (Cannabis guidelines): briefing; National Health Laboratory Service Amendment Bill: NEHAWU briefing
13 Sep 2017
The Director General of the Department of Health introduced the Medical Innovation Bill on Cannabis Guidelines. South Africa was a signatory to the 1961 Convention on the Control of Narcotic Substance and cannabis was highly controlled, but the Convention allowed for any country to utilise narcotics should there be a ...
Health
Health impacts of coal plants
8 Sep 2017
Various stakeholders from different communities came before the Committee to register their concerns as it related to health, agriculture, sanitation, water and environmental issues confronting community members in local areas where mines were built. The presenters indicated that in terms of the range of impacts linked to air pollution, most ...