Thumbs up to the NCDs cluster of the National Department of Health (NDoH) for its responsiveness to stakeholder recommendations. The draft cancer plan, National Plan for the Prevention and Control of Cancer 2015 – 2020 (NCCP) is being reviewed by multisector – all of society stakeholder meeting early next month. Click here to review this draft.
Feedback from stakeholders on the 2014 a draft NCCP made it clear that more consultation was needed. The initial stakeholder meeting to its content (organisational structure) and process of development (planning process) in Pretoria on 6 February 2015.
The aims of the meeting include:
- Identifying priorities in cancer prevention and control;
- Setting goals and objectives;
- Setting strategies for intervention;
- Setting processes and timelines to achieve a final draft.
Professor Melvyn Freeman and the cluster team are to be congratulated on the transparent and inclusive step. The 1999 NCCP needs urgent revision to provide an integrated, comprehensive people-centered plan for South Africa. The new plan must take into account:
- changing demographic and epidemiological trends
- global and national targets
- the health and developmental agendas.
For more information contact Elmie Engelbrecht at [email protected]
Click here to download the revised draft outline for consideration.
NCDs are being “integrated” into vertical the HIV/AIDS programme at primary health care clinics with little or 
no consultation with patients. Read what is being done in the UK and how the same matter is being handled in South Africa.
Are you a person living with an NCD?
How do you think we are doing in South Africa in the public and private sectors?
The principles for integrated care (most relevant below) are based on patients (aka service users). Read what UK patients want from integrated health care.
- Organised around the needs of individuals (person-centred)
- Focus always on the goal of benefiting service users
- Be evaluated by its outcomes, especially those which service users themselves report
- Include community and voluntary sector contributions (NGOs and similar organisations)
- Be fully inclusive of all communities in the locality
- Be designed together with the users of services and their carers
- Deliver a new deal for people with long term conditions
- Respond to carers as well as the people they are caring for
- Aim to achieve public and social value, not just to save money
- Last over time and be allowed to experiment
In South Africa two documents form the conceptual basis for NCDs integration: the Integrated Chronic Disease Model (ICDM) and Primary Care 101.
The ICDM
“…is a new model to improve the quality of care and outcomes for patients with chronic disease. The ICDM integrates chronic disease care at primary clinics for patients with both communicable and non-communicable conditions, and is also aligned to the PHC re-engineering Framework.
The ICDM engages stakeholders at multiple levels to strengthen the quality of care provided at clinics , to assist individuals to assume responsibility for their health, and for communities to participate in screening and health promotion activities.”
PC 101
Primary Care 101 (PC 101) is a symptom-based integrated clinical management guideline for the management of common symptoms and chronic conditions in adults.
The guidelines are intended to be used by all health care practitioners working at primary care level in South Africa.
PC 101 is being implemented as part of the Integrated Chronic Disease Model (ICDM
Click here to view ICDM
Click here to view PC 101
What do you think?
Slide presentations from the Health Systems Strengthening Kopano 17-18th November 2014
Introduction to ICDM for PHC NCDs service delivery including & patient centeredness – Dr Margo Uys
Introducing the concept of multisectoral collaboration for action and accountability using HIV/AIDS context. Application to NCDs – Dr Sue Goldstein
Human resource issues. Training training and mobilisation: focus on nurses, other professions and health care workers – Lindsay van der Linden and Razana Allie
Ring fencing Budgets – Prof Mel Freeman
Source SAnew.gov.za 20 November 2014
Cabinet has welcomed the launch of Operation Phakisa 2 which aims to transform all public sector clinics into “ideal clinics” that will provide good quality care to all communities.
President Jacob Zuma launched Operation Phakisa 2: Scaling up Ideal Clinic Realisation and Maintenance Programme on Tuesday.
Speaking at a post-Cabinet briefing in Cape Town on Thursday, Minister in the Presidency responsible for Planning, Performance, Monitoring, Evaluation and Administration, Jeff Radebe, said Operation Phakisa 2 seeks to improve the quality of care provided in 3 500 primary health care facilities, consisting of government clinics and community health centres.
“The expected outcomes entails transformation of the existing clinics and community health centres into centres of excellence, which will be used by all South Africans, due to the enhanced quality of services they will provide,” said Minister Radebe
Over the last five weeks, a team of 164 senior managers from the national, provincial and local government spheres of government, together with their counterparts from the private sector, organised labour, academia, civil society and public entities, participated in an Operation Phakisa laboratory to devise ways and means of making the ideal clinic concept a reality.
They were supported in this process by officials from the Performance Management and Development Unit in Malaysia, where they learned about the Big Fast Results delivery model.
Operation Phakisa: Ideal Clinic Initiative was organised into eight work streams, focusing on the different building blocks of an Ideal Clinic capable of delivering good quality health services.
The work streams include service delivery, waiting times, human resources, infrastructure, financial management, supply chain management, scaling up and sustainability and institutional arrangements.
Background
In July, the President launched the first phase of Operation Phakisa which focuses on unlocking the economic potential of South Africa’s oceans.
Operation Phakisa is an adaptation of the Big Fast Results methodology that was first applied by the Malaysian Government, successfully, in the delivery of its economic transformation programme.
The operation addressed their national key priority areas such as, poverty, crime and unemployment.
It involves setting up clear targets and follows up with on-going monitoring process which makes the results public.
Through this initiative, the Malaysian government was able to register impressive results within a short period.
President Zuma said South Africa has renamed the Malaysian Big Fast Results approach as Operation Phakisa – from a Sesotho word, which means “Hurry Up”, to highlight the urgency with which government wants to deliver on some of the priorities encompassed in the NDP.
The initiative will initially be implemented in two sectors, the ocean economy and health sector, especially clinics. –SAnews.gov.za
Source SAnew.gov.za 20 November 2014
Cabinet has welcomed the launch of Operation Phakisa 2 which aims to transform all public sector clinics into “ideal clinics” that will provide good quality care to all communities.
President Jacob Zuma launched Operation Phakisa 2: Scaling up Ideal Clinic Realisation and Maintenance Programme on Tuesday.
Speaking at a post-Cabinet briefing in Cape Town on Thursday, Minister in the Presidency responsible for Planning, Performance, Monitoring, Evaluation and Administration, Jeff Radebe, said Operation Phakisa 2 seeks to improve the quality of care provided in 3 500 primary health care facilities, consisting of government clinics and community health centres.
“The expected outcomes entails transformation of the existing clinics and community health centres into centres of excellence, which will be used by all South Africans, due to the enhanced quality of services they will provide,” said Minister Radebe
Over the last five weeks, a team of 164 senior managers from the national, provincial and local government spheres of government, together with their counterparts from the private sector, organised labour, academia, civil society and public entities, participated in an Operation Phakisa laboratory to devise ways and means of making the ideal clinic concept a reality.
They were supported in this process by officials from the Performance Management and Development Unit in Malaysia, where they learned about the Big Fast Results delivery model.
Operation Phakisa: Ideal Clinic Initiative was organised into eight work streams, focusing on the different building blocks of an Ideal Clinic capable of delivering good quality health services.
The work streams include service delivery, waiting times, human resources, infrastructure, financial management, supply chain management, scaling up and sustainability and institutional arrangements.
Background
In July, the President launched the first phase of Operation Phakisa which focuses on unlocking the economic potential of South Africa’s oceans.
Operation Phakisa is an adaptation of the Big Fast Results methodology that was first applied by the Malaysian Government, successfully, in the delivery of its economic transformation programme.
The operation addressed their national key priority areas such as, poverty, crime and unemployment.
It involves setting up clear targets and follows up with on-going monitoring process which makes the results public.
Through this initiative, the Malaysian government was able to register impressive results within a short period.
President Zuma said South Africa has renamed the Malaysian Big Fast Results approach as Operation Phakisa – from a Sesotho word, which means “Hurry Up”, to highlight the urgency with which government wants to deliver on some of the priorities encompassed in the NDP.
The initiative will initially be implemented in two sectors, the ocean economy and health sector, especially clinics. –SAnews.gov.za
