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Estimates of the Provincial Revenue and Expenditure (EPRE) – 2023/24 Financial Year
8.5.1. Service Delivery Measures

Table 26: Selected service delivery measures for the programme: P5 - Central Hospital Services
Estimated Medium-term estimates
performance
Programme performance measures 2022/23 2023/24 2024/25 2025/26
Patient experience of care satisfaction rate 84% 85% 86% 87%
Severity assessment code1 incident reported within 24 hours rate 96% 80% 84% 85%
Patient Safety Incident case closure rate 98% 80% 80% 80%
Average length of stay 8.5 days 8days 8 days 8 days
Inpatient bed utilisation rates 73.1% 83% 83% 83%
Expenditure per PDE R5.98 R4.95 R4.95 R4.95
Number of maternal deaths in facility 6. 39. 37. 35.
Child under 5 years diarrhoea case fatality rate 2.6% 9.3% 8.9% 8.6%
Child under 5 years’ pneumonia case fatality rate 10.6% 9.2% 8.6% 8.4%

Table 26 shows the selected service delivery measures for Central Hospital Services. As the services
provided here are of a specialised nature, measures such as patient satisfaction are important. Over

and above that, the client satisfaction rate and average length of stay are all measures of how well
the institutions are performing

Programme 6: Health Sciences and Training

Objectives: Rendering of training and development opportunities for actual and potential employees of
the department. The programme has 4 sub-programmes with the following objectives:

x Nursing Training Colleges: Training of nurses at undergraduate and post-basic level. The target
group includes actual and potential employees.

x EMS Training College: Training of rescue and ambulance personnel.

x Bursaries: Provision of bursaries for health science training programmes at undergraduate and

postgraduate levels; and

x Other Training: Provision of skills development interventions for all occupational categories in the
department.

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