Policies / Policies from 2017
Policies with publication year 2017.
Ministry of Environmental Affairs and Tourism
The categories of exemptions to the restrictions are outlined. The list is specified in a tabular format with details including; scientific and common names of threatened species, and specific restricted activities.
Ministry of Agriculture, Ministry of Forestry,Ministry of Fisheries
The regulations provide rules for the sale of wheat products in South Africa. It spells out the restrictions and guidelines for the sale of wheat products in the country. It also outlines the different classes of wheat products and the standards for each of them.
Ministry of Health
The guideline aims to provide the legal and policy framework that governs the need to consult with patients and clients. Its objectives are to describe the difference between Patient Satisfaction and Patient Experience of Care; to describe the frequency of obtaining feedback from patients; to describe the process of obtaining feedback from patients (conducting a PEC survey); to determine the level of patient satisfaction, and to improve or sustain service delivery.
Ministry of Health
This policy applies to all current and prospective public and private emergency care personnel and EMS education and training providers. It aims to ensure the alignment of emergency care education and training with current education legislation, national education and training needs and imperatives of the national Department of Health in order to ensure the rendering of quality healthcare services to the population of South Africa.
Ministry of Health
The purpose of this Guideline is to provide direction to the health sector of South Africa regarding the management of patient safety incident reporting, including the provision of appropriate feedback to patients, families/support persons and clinicians, and the sharing of lessons learned to prevent patient harm. It describes a nationally standardized system for managing patient safety incidents to ensure that various levels of care in the health system respond effectively to patient safety incidents. By doing so, patient safety is improved by learning from failures of the healthcare system so that the likelihood of a recurrence of the same event is significantly reduced.
Ministry of Health
This document introduces Listeriosis as a bacterial disease caused by the gram-positive, rod-shaped, motile bacterium, Listeria monocytogenes. It details several Listeria cases and gender distribution amongst 5 categories of listeriosis patients and also the number of cases of laboratory-confirmed listeriosis in South Africa from January to October 2017 by 5-year age category. Chapter 6 and 7 of this document discuss the diagnosis and treatment of listeriosis in different forms.
Ministry of Health
This policy updates the existing strategy to take into account technological advancements in cervical cancer prevention and new evidence on screening, approaches and methods in the context of the HIV epidemic. It introduces primary prevention of cervical cancer through Human Papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination of young girls between age 9 to 12 and promotes awareness regarding HPV prevention through safe sex practices and dual protection (barrier plus other methods of contraception). It also provides for secondary prevention by strengthening cytology screening. It also introduces new guidelines for cervical cancer screening for women living with HIV.
Ministry of Health
Prevention of cancer should be integrated with the prevention of chronic diseases and other related areas of healthcare (such as reproductive health, hepatitis B immunization, HIV/AIDS, occupational health and environmental health). Therefore, this Breast Cancer Prevention and Control Policy document is designed to prioritize breast cancer awareness, prevention, treatment and care in South Africa. It provides clinical support for women, who are both at risk of developing the disease later in life and are currently undergoing treatment, to survive and live healthy lives.
Health
The goal of this policy is to ensure that all Nigerians have access to timely, affordable, quality, efficient and equitable healthcare services. The policy is anchored on 4 strategies namely strengthening health financing governance, adequate revenue generation, protection of financial risk and efficient strategic purchasing of essential health services.
Ministry of Finance, Budget and National Planning
This is an Act to authorize the issue of funds from the Federal Capital Territory Administrative Statutory account the total sum of N222,360,551,512 only, for the financial year commencing from 1st January and ending on 31st December 2017.
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