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close down due to financial difficulties.
● Woodlands Convalescence
Home. The facility was closed
down in 2003 as it failed to
comply with legal requirements
for a sub acute facility.
● Observatory House Sub Acute;
were given six months to comply
with fire safety requirements;
they were unable to
comply with building services
requirements and the facility
was subsequently closed down
in 2003.
● Life Sandton Surgical Centre,
the dental theatre was not compliant
with minimum standards;
they were given six months to
correct the problem. The theatre
was redesigned within four
months and is now compliant
with standards.
(iv) Three (3).
KwaZulu-Natal
(1) (a) Yes.
(b) Yes.
(i) Not applicable.
(ii) Audit procedures, Risk Assessment
Checklists/Toolkits and
Internal control checklists
(c)
which have been designed in
consultation with prescripts and
departmental policies and procedures
have been utilised to
identify, evaluate, communicate
and mitigate identified and potential
risks prevalent in the
department.
Regularity and Performance Au-
dits which are carried out by the
Auditor-General are undertaken in
accordance with a three year rotation
audit plan which is aimed at
covering most hospitals. Further,
the Internal Audit Unit of the
Provincial Treasury and the Departments
Audit and Risk Management
Component undertake
compliance audits and risk assessment
in terms of an annual audit
plan.
(aa) Auditor-General, the Internal
Audit Unit of the KwaZulu-
Natal Provincial Treasury as
well as the Departments Audit
and Risk Management
Component.
(bb) Appropriate Bachelors degree
and/or equivalent qualification,
[B Com, National
Diploma Internal Auditing, B
Tech Internal Audit, Masters
Degree in Business Leadership
(MBL)].
(cc) In terms of applicable standards,
guidelines and requirements.
(dd) Requirements as prescribed
by the relevant Acts, Regulations
and departmental policies
and procedures with due
consideration to identified
and potential risks that are
prevalent in the department.
Further, quality standards eg
Clinical Governance, are also
utilised.
(2) (a) Yes
(b) Not applicable.
(c) They are in terms of the Public
Finance Management Act, Treasury
Regulations as well other
prescripts.
(d) They do not differ.