- Title
- A budget and expenditure review of public hospital facilities in the Eastern Cape in transition towards National Health Insurance
- Creator
- Ndlovu, Garfield OG
- Subject
- Health services administration--South Africa--Eastern Cape Government spending policy--South Africa--Eastern Cape Health services administration
- Date
- 2018
- Type
- Thesis
- Type
- Masters
- Type
- Public Health Leadership
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10353/11139
- Identifier
- vital:37174
- Description
- The quest to ameliorate and enhance the equitable allocation of resources in the Health Industry remains a global challenge, in particular the distribution of funding resources in public sector health facilities. The need to analyse and understand the appropriation of budget and utilisation of funds by hospital facilities is important in the in the Eastern Cape. The focus of the study seeks to explore recommendations that can be employed in the provincial budgeting process of Hospital Facilities, in a bid to optimise efficiency and improve the funding process as part of the provincial readiness activities towards the realisation of the NHI System and funding approach, wherein the NHI Fund will be a public entity that is not in business to make profit (NHI Booklet 2012: 05). This fund will introduce new systems of paying hospitals and professionals for the services they provide, aiming to be fair to them but to put a stop to unreasonable profits (NHI Booklet 2012: 05). The research has employed the use of descriptive quantitative techniques in order to undertake an expenditure review of existing financial data with respect to the Eastern Cape public Hospitals. The study followed a quantitative descriptive research design, the purpose of this study is that, quantitative research deals in numbers, logic, and an objective stance (Babbie: 2010). The Quantitative aspect of the study found that the data provided, allowed the researcher to organise, synthesise, prioritise and assign value to specific key performance indicators that would be used for the appraisal of hospital facilities in relation to the expenditure patterns based which would present a glimpse into how the Eastern Cape department of health utilises funding resources.
- Format
- 68 leaves
- Format
- Publisher
- University of Fort Hare
- Publisher
- Faculty of Health Sciences
- Language
- English
- Rights
- University of Fort Hare
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