Health
With respect to the pilot project to leverage public-private partnerships to achieve universal healthcare coverage:
Whether this project has been established; if so, (a) for how long is it expected to last, (b) what is the budgetary allocation being made to this project, (c) what are the terms of reference, (d) on which model is this project being based and (e) which stakeholders are being involved to achieve this?
A new National NHI project for this coming financial year is planned, which will focus on the establishment of a Contracting Unit for Primary Health Care [CUPs], which is yet to be implemented. This will include the setting up of six workgroups looking at various aspects of service within the proposed NHI model.
Our Department has multiple existing initiatives to leverage public-private partnerships. These range from private provider contracts to provide family planning and immunisations, private hospital group contracts for elective surgical procedures, private EMS contracts, etc.
Specific funded business plans (from NHI National Conditional Grant) in the Garden Route have been in existence for many years testing various service delivery models, mainly focused on contracting private GPs to work in the public sector.
