Purpose

To plan, provide and equip new facilities/assets, and to upgrade, rehabilitate and maintain hospitals and clinics.

Plans for 2009-14

•      Create a safe and secured working environment within the Department of Health and Social Development through; the approval and implementation of a Security Policy, establishment of Security Committee and Security Forums.
  
  
•      Management of security breaches through; intelligence based investigations, monitoring of compliance; liaison with Security Agencies and all other relevant stakeholders.
  
  
•      Management of Private Security Services Providers in terms of the signed Service Level Agreement through; monitoring and evaluation of their performance with broad intention of maintaining value for money and minimizing security breaches.
  
  
  

Planning

Alignment of long term plans to the 10 point plan

• Provincial Service Transformation Plan harmonized to 2014
• Infrastructure planning to match service requirements
• Integrated with municipality Integrated Development Plans
  
  

Modernisation of tertiary services

•      Developing plans to reduce cost of services especially given the expected funding gap for MTS requirements
  
  
•      Aligning long term planning to MTS requirements
  
  

Planning Process

•      Complete current projects (Revitalization, Provincial Infrastructure, Equitable share, Maintenance, Emergency projects, face lift project)
•      Focus on the 10 priority hospitals
•      Develop new projects under PPP with DBSA
•      Implement own projects or include new implementing agents