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Estimates of the Provincial Revenue and Expenditure (EPRE) – 2023/24 Financial Year
management from finance lease under payments of capital assets to alleviate current pressures under

goods and services.

8.3.1. Service Delivery Measures

Table 20: Selected service delivery measures for the programme: P3 - Emergency Medical Services
Estimated
performance Medium-term estimates
Programme performance measures 2022/23 2023/24 2024/25 2025/26
EMS P1 urban response under 30 minutes rate 53% 50% 53% 55%
EMS P1 rural response under 60 minutes rate 63% 65% 66% 67%
Number of Patients transported on the PTV services 59 059 60 000 60 000 60 000

Table 20 above shows high level of service delivery measures for the Emergency Medical Services
programme. Performance is measured by the number of emergency vehicles in operation as well as
response rates in both urban and rural areas.

Programme 4: Provincial Hospital Services

Objectives: Delivery of hospital services, which are accessible, appropriate, effective and provide
general specialist services, including a specialized rehabilitation service, as well as a platform for training

health professionals and research. The programme has 3 sub-programmes with the following objectives:

x General (Regional) Hospitals: Rendering of hospital services at a general specialist level and a
platform for training of health workers and research;

x Tuberculosis (TB) Hospitals: To convert present TB hospitals into strategically placed centres of
excellence in which a small percentage of patients may undergo hospitalisation under conditions
which allow for isolation during the intensive phase of treatment, as well as the application of the

standardized multi-drug resistant (MDR) and extreme drug resistant (XDR) protocols; and

x Psychiatric / Mental Hospitals: Rendering a specialist psychiatric hospital service for people with
and intellectual disability and providing a platform for the training of health workers and research.

Table 21: Summary of payments and estimates: Programme 4 - Provincial Hospital Services
Main Adjusted
Outcome Revised estimate Medium-term estimates % change
appropriation appropriation
R thousand 2019/20 2020/21 2021/22 2022/23 2023/24 2024/25 2025/26 from 2022/23
1. General (Regional) Hospitals 3 152 971 3 093 261 2 748 880 2 519 839 2 622 831 2 876 138 2 719 261 2 875 755 3 126 651 (5,5)
2. Tb Hospitals 310 434 348 096 382 771 439 934 447 634 389 477 489 100 474 039 496 472 25,6
3. Psychiatric Mental Hospitals 562 994 539 008 554 702 588 282 616 386 625 309 678 353 707 048 679 633 8,5
Total payments and estimates 4 026 399 3 980 365 3 686 353 3 548 055 3 686 851 3 890 924 3 886 714 4 056 842 4 302 756 (0,1)

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