At the centre of the crisis is the relationship breakdown between the province’s political leadership and members of the National Education Health and Allied Workers’ Union (Nehawu), whose go-slow at the provincial medicines depot has stopped drugs leaving or entering the facility. Nehawu says the protest action will continue until their demand ...
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Apr 19, 2018
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Implementation of this policy framework and strategy will ensure that community health workers within the WBPHCOTs, supported by different categories of health professionals, form the bridge between communities and healthcare service provision within health facilities. WBPHCOTs will bring healthcare closer to communities, families and individua ...
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Apr 9, 2018
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Download RHAP’s review here: NHI From Green to White Paper_ Review_RHAP_July2017 Since the publication of the NHI Green Paper in 2011, the Rural Health Advocacy Project (RHAP) and its rural health partners have engaged extensively with the NHI policy development and review process. This engagement has included providing comment on various ...
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Mar 5, 2018
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Rural communities left at the wayside in community service allocations Discrimination towards rural communities in health service delivery persists. This is one of the key findings from the Annual CSO Allocation Update ‘ACUTE’, a report released by the Rural Health Advocacy Project (RHAP). The goal of the report is to monitor and critically eva ...
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With this publication the RHAP launches the Annual Community Service Officer Update ‘ACUTE’ on the allocation of community service officers in South Africa. The purpose is to monitor whether the country is making progress with regards to meeting the intended purpose of community service which is to address the maldistribution of human resources ...
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Feb 23, 2018
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CIVIL SOCIETY PROPOSES ALTERNATIVE, PEOPLE-CENTERED BUDGET Download the Alternative Budget here Broad collective of socio-economic rights organisations offer example of a budget which takes ordinary South Africans seriously. Minister Gigaba will be asked to make hard, but essential budget choices in his first budget speech in Parliament tomorro ...
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By Russell Rensburg, RHAP Programme Manager: Health Systems and Policy In his inaugural state of the nation address, President Ramaphosa outlined a broad set of initiatives that focussed primarily on addressing the lapses in trust between the government and the people. The focus was on improving the credibility of the state and more specificall ...
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By Marije Versteeg-Mojanaga, Rural Health Advocacy Project, published in issue 4 of Spotlight. The stories of health care users experiences with the health system as published by Spotlight are devastating. Various factors play a role when patients’ rights are violated, such as poor planning, inadequate HR management, budget cuts, healthcare wor ...
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By Karessa Govender, Published in The Daily Maverick, 17 November 2017 https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/opinionista/2017-11-17-are-south-african-health-workers-being-silenced-into-malpractice/#.Wg6MYROCxE4 “There is really no such thing as the ‘voiceless’. There are only the deliberately silenced, or the preferably unheard.” The word ...
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