Hospital Revitalisation Programme

• Infrastructure

• The Health Infrastructure Planning component of Revitalisation includes the process of briefing, design, budget, tender, construction, handover, maintenance and design evaluation.
• Health Technology
  • The Health Technology component focuses on auditing and subsequent purchasing of equipment based on service packages, development of sustainable systems for Health Technology planning and subsequent general management and maintenance of technologies throughout the lifecycle of the equipment.
• Organisational Development and Management
• Organisational development and management strengthening as a component is aimed at:
• Strengthening intuitional and operational efficiency of public hospitals, which have been selected as revitalisation projects, though improving their management systems, structures and processes.
• Decentralisation and restructuring of management at provincial and hospital level
• This is to be done through the integration of fourteen broad focus areas:
• Organisational strategy
• Organisationsal structures
• Organisational culture and values
• Delegation of authority
• Planning and budgeting
• Hospital governance
• Human Resource Management
• Hospital Financial Management
• Hospital Information Technology
• Patient Administration
• Clinical Governance
• Pharmacy
• Communication Strategy
   
• Quality Assurance
  • Quality Assurance involves the modification of hospital systems in order to improve the quality of services that are provided.  This component involves the improvement and sustainability thereof, of the quality of services provided in public hospitals through the:
  • Establishment of hospital based Quality Assurance (QA) Management team
  • Implementation of appropriate national packages of services with its accompanying norms and standards
  • Introduction of peer review and clinical audit
  • Establishment of sound supervisory systems
  • Setting up of an adverse event reporting system
  • Assessment of client satisfaction
  • Training of hospital staff in the QA methodology, the principles and the tools
  • Implementation of the Batho Pele Privacy Policy and ensuring that the community being served by the hospital is empowered through the Patient's Rights charter,  complaints procedure, help desk and hospital boards, and
  • Adjustment of hospitals internal information systems to enable the measurement of quality.

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