New DDG to lead hospital and clinical service delivery improvement plan in North West
North West Department of Health Administrator Ms Jeanette Hunter convened a two day Hospital Seminar in Rustenburg to understand what hospitals are doing and how they are doing it in an effort to lead required service delivery improvement plan.
The objective of the Hospital Seminar was to review the transversal issues in the hospital component of the service delivery platform of the Department in order to provide the newly appointed Deputy Director General (DDG) with an overview to base service delivery improvement plan, Hunter said.
At the start of the Section 100(1) (b) intervention in May 2018, a number of challenges were noted in the hospital component of service delivery platform.
“The management of secondary and tertiary hospitals together with clinical services have been elevated to the level of DDG to lead the required improvements in this area. Mr Polaki Mokatsana, former Chief Executive Officer of Klerksdorp-Tshepong Hospital Complex has been appointed effective 1 September 2019 to drive improvement plan,” she said.
Mr Mokatsane comes with a good track record of having transformed Klerksdorp-Tshepong Hospital Complex into a center of excellence.
South Africa’s regulations on norms and standards applicable to different categories of health establishments state that health facilities have the function to promote and protect the health and safety of health users and health care personnel.
The Office of the Health Standards Compliance uses these norms and standards to determine to what extend the hospitals in South Africa live up to expectation.
“The Department has recently adopted the Ideal Hospital Realization and Maintenance Framework to proactively work towards the prescribed norms and standards.
“The hospitals in th North West thus have to create an environment within which the health and safety of staff and patients are protected,” she said.
The health and safety of health care users and health care personnel at all levels of care in the Province have been identified as key factors in the realization of service delivery improvement plan.
Enquiries:
Tebogo Lekgethwane - Spokesperson North West Department of Health
Cell: 082 929 9958
