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Selected provincial health budget vote speeches from the Free State, KwaZulu-Natal, Gauteng the Western Cape provinces.
Published by the South African Department of Health, this 53-page document outlines eight broad strategic goals for the department within the next four years including rolling out the National Health Insurance (NHI), re-engineering primary health care and improving financial management.
Tshilidzi Tuwani from Soshanguve outside Pretoria was named ‘Citizen Journalist of the Year’ as Health-e News honoured its citizen journalists from around the country.
In this 2013 presentation, the Department of Health outlines legislative, governance and institutional reforms accompanying the National Health Insurance (NHI) as well as timeframes.
This 36-page policy document outlines the Department of Health’s eHealth strategy, which is set to lead the department in improving patient information systems nationwide.
This 17-page public position paper was recently presented at a 1 September Wiser lecture by Section27 Executive Director Mark Heywood.
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The World Health Organisation’s (WHO) new report states that while e-cigarettes represent an “evolving frontier filled with promise and threat for tobacco control,” regulations are needed.
Last October, the Mpumalanga Department of Health was placed under the administration of the provincial finance department to save it from collapse. Health-e News looks at the costs of the province’s deadly debt.
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Experts’ presentations on South Africa’s HIV “investment case” made at a July consultation organised by the country’s national AIDS council.
The South African National AIDS Council (SANAC) outlines its plan for the next three years in this 48-page performance plan.
Public interest organisation Section27 has summarised inputs from the Department of Health, medical schemes, civil society and others on documents set to form the base of the Competition Commission market inquiry into the private health care sector.
The public has until 15 September to submit comments on this draft legislation regarding pharmacist dispensing fees released by the South African government.