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Activities
Provision of services in
under-serviced areas
Continuous learning
and development
Resources management
and control
Planned
Management
Intervention
Discounts on service
delivery against
prescribed benefit
scales
Continuous
professional
development
programme
Inspector-General’s
audits
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Table 7.5 Military Health Support Programme: Performance and Service Delivery Improvement for
FY 2007/08 (continued)
Collaboration and
liaison with Directorate
Human Resources
Acquisition
Collaboration and
liaison with national
and provincial
Departments of Health
Policy Developments
Enhancing the
acquisition process
Meetings with the
national and provincial
Departments of Health
Anticipated Benefit Status Actual Achievement
Reduction in healthcare
cost
Client satisfaction and
improved processes
Enhancement of
effective, efficient
and economical
management
Improved staffing
figures of healthcare
practitioners
Decreased healthcare
cost
Strengthening of
relationships
Building of capacity
The DOD HIV and AIDS and Sexually-Transmitted
Infection (STI) Strategic Plan 2007-2011 has been
aligned with the National Strategic Plan. The DOD
policy on the management of the DOD HIV/AIDS
Programme is being developed.
Other DOD health policy documents being
developed are, inter alia, TB Management in
Ongoing SG instituted further control
measures in terms of outsourcing
and delegations were centralised.
Regional meetings with national
and provincial administrations
continued to improve and sustain
inter-sectoral and collaborative
relationships.
Ongoing School for Military Health Training
is in the process of developing
further programmes. General
officers commanding and officers
commanding underwent an
orientation course.
Ongoing Initial and follow-up audits.
Inspector-General audits took
place at several units. The SAMHS
Inspectorate grouped related risks
together under appropriate audit
topics, allowing the Inspectorate
to audit 136 risks under the audit
topics, covering the risks indicated
in the Three-Year Rolling Internal
Audit Strategy of the DOD, as
well as depicted in the SAMHS
Three-Year Rolling Internal Audit
Strategy, at scheduled SAMHS
Force Structure Elements.
Ongoing The SAMHS initiated several
consultations with the Directorate
Human Resources Acquisition in
an effort to shorten and expedite
the appointment of healthcare
practitioners who had been
recruited and who had applied
for employment in the DOD.
Currently, the natural attrition
of the healthcare practitioners
in the SAMHS is higher than the
acquisition of this group.
Ongoing The SAMHS initiated meetings
with the national and provincial
administrations to promote
and sustain inter-sectoral and
collaborative relationships.
The initiative of the SAMHS
in KwaZulu-Natal is a good
example of the outcomes of these
initiatives by the SAMHS.
the DOD, Provision of Emergency Medical
Services in the DOD, Fundamentals and Rules of
Pharmaceutical Service Productivity Improvement,
and SAMHS Healthcare Delivery.
The policy informing the provision of military
healthcare services needs to be expanded to
incorporate funding for the military veterans.