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National Policy Incidents to Manage Patient Incidents in the Public Health Sector of South Africa

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Policies
The purpose of this policy is to provide direction to the public health sector of South Africa regarding the management of patient safety incidents, including the provision of appropriate feedback to patients, families/support persons and clinicians, and the sharing of lessons learned to prevent patient harm. This policy describes a national standardised system for managing patient safety incidents to ensure that health facilities, district offices, provincial offices and the national office respond effectively to patient safety incidents.

NATIONAL NORMS AND STANDARDS RELATING TO ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH IN TERMS OF NATIONAL HEALTH ACT, 2003 (ACT NO 61 OF 2003)

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Policies
The norms and standards for environmental health will assist in setting a benchmark of quality against which delivery of environmental health services can be monitored. The main purpose of the norms and standards is to provide a national approach in ensuring standardization of functions and activities in the delivery of environmental health services and establish a level against which environmental health service delivery can be assessed and gaps identified.

National Medical Male Circumcision Training Implementation Guidelines

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Guides/Guidelines
The training implementation guideline aims to ensure the provision of high quality, standardized VMMC training, capacity building in collaboration with the Regional Training Centers (RTC), to provide mentoring and support in addition to skills acquisition, to ensure competency and sustained expertise in the provision of safe VMMC services.

National Integrated Sexual Reproductive Health and Right Policy 2020

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Guides/Guidelines
his document consolidates several clinical and policy guidelines on various aspects of SRHR; including the National Contraception Clinical Guidelines; National Clinical Guidelines for Safe Conception and Infertility; National Guidelines for Implementation of Choice on Termination of Pregnancy; the Sexually Transmitted Infections Management Guidelines; National Clinical Guidelines for Cervical Cancer Control and management; National Clinical Guidelines for Breast Cancer Control and management; and the Guidelines on the Management of Post-Exposure Prophylaxis (PEP) in Occupational and Non-Occupa

National Infection Prevention and Control Strategic Framework - 2020

Type
Strategic Documents and Plans
The purpose of this document is to outline the strategic framework to prevent, reduce and control the development of healthcare-associated infections (HAIs) and antimicrobial resistance (AMR), ultimately improving patient safety and health outcomes. This strategic framework will be applicable to all provincial and district managers responsible for health service delivery including for infection prevention and control health facility staff and health workers in both the public and private health sector.

National HIV Self Screening Guidelines - 2018

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Guides/Guidelines
The WHO defines HIV self testing (referred to self-screening in this document) as a voluntary process in which a person collects his or her own specimen (oral fluid or blood) and then performs a screening test and interprets the result, often in a private setting, either alone or with someone he or she trusts. It should be offered as an additional approach to existing HTS, and not replace it. The overall goal of HIV self-screening is to improve HIV testing among the historically HIV under-tested, test-averse and hard to reach groups, such as men, adolescent girls and young women (AGYW).

National Health Insurance Strategic Plan 2020/21 - 2024/25

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Strategic Documents and Plans

The National Health Insurance (NHI) policy of government aims to dismantle the system and introduce several structural reforms. The consultation on NHI bill, which is led by the portfolio committee of health, will ensure that NHI fund is established and able to strategically purchase health services from public and private health providers once it is enacted by the President. Concurrently, the National Department DoH, in partnership with its provincial counterparts, aims to strengthen the health system of South Africa to achieve Universal Health Coverage.

National Health Insurance for South Africa White Paper

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Policies
The NHI aims to achieve the following objectives, ensuring universal health coverage for all South Africans, improving the quality of health care services irrespective of socio-economic status of the user, promoting equity and social solidarity through the pooling of risks and funds and creating one public health fund with adequate resources and funds to plan for and to effectively meet the health needs of the entire population.
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