Chapter 2 - P rogramme 1 - Department of Defence
Chapter 2 - P rogramme 1 - Department of Defence
Chapter 2 - P rogramme 1 - Department of Defence
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| <strong>Department</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>Defence</strong> |<br />
Table 7.4 Military Health Support P<strong>rogramme</strong>: Additional Funding for FY 2007/08 (continued)<br />
Policy Option Allocation (R’000) Output Targets Actual Achievement<br />
MSDS 14 600 To provide health care for<br />
6 000 MSDS members<br />
Compliance with health<br />
legislation and support to<br />
Government initiatives<br />
Performance and Service Delivery Improvement<br />
14 000 Upgrade <strong>of</strong> the SAMHS<br />
depot to the correct standard<br />
Acquisition <strong>of</strong> equipment<br />
and infrastructure <strong>of</strong> the<br />
presidential medical support<br />
Healthcare provided to all<br />
MSDS members as required<br />
and funded.<br />
Planned activities for the<br />
upgrade <strong>of</strong> the SAMHS<br />
Depot during FY 2007/08<br />
were completed. Drawings<br />
and planning for the new<br />
depot were completed. Actual<br />
renovations on the building to<br />
start and being funded from<br />
SAMHS operational budget.<br />
Presidential medical health<br />
team equipped to the required<br />
standard during the financial<br />
year with the Treasury<br />
allocation.<br />
Details <strong>of</strong> the SAMHS performance and service delivery improvement are reflected in Table 7.5.<br />
Table 7.5 Military Health Support P<strong>rogramme</strong>: Performance and Service Delivery Improvement for<br />
FY 2007/08<br />
Activities<br />
Planned<br />
Management<br />
Intervention<br />
Healthcare Generic medicine Reduction in healthcare<br />
cost<br />
Project MEDSAVE Reduction in healthcare<br />
cost<br />
Section 38A nurses Reduction in healthcare<br />
cost<br />
Increased training <strong>of</strong><br />
operational emergency<br />
care practitioners<br />
Anticipated Benefit Status Actual Achievement<br />
Increase in healthcare<br />
coverage<br />
Medicine Code List Reduction in healthcare<br />
cost<br />
Ongoing 55% <strong>of</strong> brand-name<br />
pharmaceuticals were replaced<br />
Ongoing<br />
with generics in FY 2007/08, in<br />
comparison with 37% in<br />
FY 2006/07.<br />
Project MEDSAVE, which<br />
entails the couriering <strong>of</strong> chronic<br />
medication to members 50 km<br />
and further from a military health<br />
installation, was expanded to more<br />
service points in order to decrease<br />
outsourcing and save cost.<br />
Ongoing Due to a shortage <strong>of</strong> pharmacists,<br />
33 Section 38A nurses are<br />
currently utilised for dispensing<br />
medication.<br />
Ongoing The SAMHS has adopted the<br />
strategy to drastically increase<br />
the recruiting and training <strong>of</strong><br />
operational emergency care<br />
Ongoing<br />
practitioners over the next five years.<br />
The required 1 000 hours’ practical<br />
training <strong>of</strong> operational emergency<br />
care practitioners under training has<br />
also benefited provincial hospitals.<br />
Only medication on the Military<br />
Medicine Code List is prescribed<br />
and dispensed. Adherence to no<br />
buy-outs, except in exceptional<br />
cases. Financial delegation<br />
to <strong>of</strong>ficers commanding was<br />
decreased.<br />
153 Annual Report FY 2007 - 2008<br />
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