A shortened version now online in Bhekisisa M&G Health: http://bhekisisa.org/article/2017-03-02-00-radical-transformation-begins-with-fixing-how-we-fund-healthcare-in-remote-areas Picture caption: Nurse accomodation at a deeply rural hospital faced with a staffing crisis in the Eastern Cape. Few healhcare workers agree to come and work here ...
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At the International Conference on Health Inequities and the Social Determinants of Health hosted by Wits School of Public Health and SAMA on 22-23 February 2017, Marije Versteeg-Mojanaga presented on inequities in rural health care at times of budget constraints; explaining why our priority-setting process if flawed; why cutting now is costing ...
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The RHAP is very concerned but not surprised about the news that broke this morning that 307 interns are still without an offer of employment for 2017 due to budget cuts (point 8 below). While the memo below refers to the education crisis as the main reason for the budget cut (point 9), this is symptomatic for a broader problem: the overall und ...
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Rural Health Advocacy Project Press Statement MTBPS 2016: The Rural Health Advocacy Project warns against further health service cuts to those most in need following continued fiscal consolidation 27 October 2016 Following the Medium Term Budget Policy Statement (MTBPS) by Minister of Finance, Pravin Gordhan, on 26 October 2016, we reflect in t ...
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The South African government is currently embarking on one of its most ambitious transformation projects of the last 20 years. The introduction of the National Health Insurance (NHI) has the potential to fundamentally shift how the provision of health care is funded, how the system is structured and how services are accessed. The NHI could, if ...
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On 21 May the RHAP together with RuDASA hosted a rural health imbizo in one of the most rural districts in the country, Dr Ruth Segomotsi Mompati (Dr RSM) District in North West Province. Over 100 community members from around 14 villages attended the Imbizo, some represented NGO’s operating in the area, others represented community health work ...
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The RHAP welcomes the Health Minister’s statement on staffing moratoria and calls for the protection of critical health posts in times of austerity 9 February 2016 The RHAP welcomes the Minister’s statement[1] to the press dated 8 February in which he responds to allegations of “frozen posts” in the health system. In his response the Minister w ...
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The purpose of this working paper is to draw attention to the causes, consequences and possible responses to the implementation of moratoria on the filling of posts within the health system. Human resource moratoria, also referred to as the ‘freezing of posts’, have become an increasingly common occurrence within the public health system over t ...
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Submission to the Joint Meeting of the Standing and Select Committees on Finance, Public Hearings, 28 October 2015. Download the full submission Summary and recommendations This submission is made to the Joint Meeting of the Standing and Select Committees on Finance on the 2015 Medium Term Budget Policy Statement tabled in Parliament on 28 Oct ...
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In this SAHR chapter Eagar, Cooke, Levin and Wolmarans developed an tested an approach to the creation of a rural index that explicitly accounts for differences in rural and urban contexts with regards to healthcare need and the demographic, geographic and socio-economic factors that play a role in determining relative resource needs. The appro ...
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