Mandate for the Hospital Revitalisation Programme
The Division of Revenue Act (Act 6 of 2011) (DORA), outlines the purpose of the Hospital Revitalisation Grant.
- To provide funding to enable provinces to plan, manage, modernize,
rationalize and transform the Infrastructure, health technology, monitoring and
evaluation of hospitals in line with national policy objectives
- To transform hospital management and improve quality of care in line with national policy
Overview of Hospital Revitalisation
Hospital Revitalisation is one of the themes of the Ten Point Plan
Strategic Framework document of the KZN Health Department and includes :-
- Updating the National Planning Framework
- Improving the condition of hospitals
- Improving the condition of equipment
- Decentralisation of hospital management
- Rationalisation of highly specialised services
Hospital Revitalisation is a nationally funded programme, essentially
becoming the focus of the conditional grant. The revitalisation
programme is deliberately holistic in approach, recognising that dealing
with parts of the system will not achieve the objective of the
revitalisation of public hospitals. As a result, revitalisation of
hospitals consists of four sub-programmes.
Sub-Programmes of Hospital Revitalisation
Infrastructure
The Health Infrastructure Planning component of Revitalisation includes the
processes of project briefing, planning & design, budgeting, documentation,
tendering, construction, handover, operational maintenance and finally
design evaluation.
Health Technology
The Health Technology component focuses on auditing of requirements 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
equipment.
Organisational Development and Management
- Quality Assurance Organizational development and management strengthening as components, are aimed at :
- Strengthening institutional and operational efficiency of Hospitals
by improving their management systems, structures and processes.
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Decentralisation and restructuring of management at Regional and
District Hospital levels
- Quality Assurance
- Quality Assurance involves the modification of Hospital systems in
order to improve the quality of services that are provided.
- Establishment of hospital based Quality Assurance (QA) Management
teams and the implementation of the National Core Standards for Health
Establishments in South Africa with its accompanying norms and
standards.
- Introduce sound supervisory systems, an adverse event reporting
system and Implement the Batho Pele Privacy Policy to ensure that the
community being served by the Hospital is empowered through the
Patient’s rights Charter, complaints procedure, help desk and Hospital
boards
