Medicines Control Council and registration backlog of antiretrovirals.
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As noted above, the issue of mid-level health workers was addressed in the Pick report of 2001. The decision to establish mid-level medical workers was taken in December 2002 at MinMec (now called the National Health Council) and confirmed in January 2004. Investigations and consultations have taken place since then with a wide range of stakeholders and role players including the health science faculties, professional organisations, and statuary councils including the South African Nursing Council. A large consultation conference held in March 2004 was attended by all the health science faculties, a large number of professional organisations including SAMA and Denosa, provincial health managers and district hospital managers and practitioners. The consensus decision at this meeting was that the implementation of the mid-level medical worker programme should continue with specific attention given to scope of practice. At that meeting the SAMA representative gave support to the undertaking. FaMEC (Family Medicine Education Consortium), which represents family medicine departments and rural health units of all the health science faculties in South Africa, assisted the Department of Health in the development of a scope of practice and training programme. Several workshops were held including a 2day consultation with trainers of primary health care nurse trainers. Work on the scope of practice was informed by a study commissioned by the National Department of Health on the disease profile and skills needs in rural hospitals.3
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- South African medical journal = Suid-Afrikaanse tydskrif vir geneeskunde
دوره 97 3 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2007