Question NW4163 to the Minister of Health
14 December 2023 - NW4163
Hlengwa, Ms MD to ask the Minister of Health
Whether his department has records of the number of specialists in each specified area of specialisation (a) in each province, (b) in the public health service, and (c) in the private health service during the 2013-2023 period; if not, why not; if so, what are the relevant details?
Reply:
The data as requested is drawn from the Persal System and was extracted on 30 November 2023. Unfortunately, records on the Persal System are not able to provide granule data of each specialization as Specialists are not captured per specialization but per Professional Category.
(a)-(b) The table below responds to question (a) and (b) which is the data available on the Persal system. We do acknowledge that the Professional Councils also keep data of all specialities but with a limitation of not being able to still distinguish between employment status (public or private) as well as current location of practice (Nationally or Abroad).
|
Row Labels |
EC |
FS |
GAU |
KZN |
LP |
MPU |
NW |
NC |
WC |
|
Medical Specialist |
163 |
127 |
1026 |
569 |
81 |
51 |
113 |
29 |
749 |
|
Registrar (Medical) |
97 |
186 |
1265 |
334 |
94 |
4 |
44 |
2 |
630 |
|
Senior Registrar (Medical) |
1 |
0 |
10 |
0 |
1 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
48 |
|
Professional Nurse (Specialised) |
1448 |
596 |
2834 |
3605 |
1539 |
775 |
1265 |
150 |
1416 |
|
Dental Specialist |
0 |
1 |
60 |
2 |
3 |
2 |
0 |
0 |
5 |
|
Grand Total |
1709 |
910 |
5195 |
4510 |
1715 |
832 |
1422 |
181 |
2848 |
(c) Not able to provide information of specialist currently in the private sector as the Department is currently not collecting the data but still improving our Human Resource Information System to be operable with private sector.
END.