Healthcare 

With 10% of the world population and 25% of the global disease burden, Africa accounts for less than 1% of global health spend and 2% of the global health workforce. Most health expenditure in Africa continues to be through impoverishing out-of-pocket spending (African Union, 2006).

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Given this scenario, the continent faces massive health financing challenges. The South African Government is tackling some of these issues through the introduction of a National Health Insurance (NHI) system.

 

KPMG is committed to providing long-term support to our clients as they tackle these challenges and transform the way healthcare is provided.

 

How we can help
 

Quality and efficiency improvement: Helping public and private service providers to adopt best practice operational models, processes and cost management capabilities to enhance both service quality and value for money.

 

Programme/service monitoring and evaluation: Assessing the performance of health programmes, services and organisations, developing and reviewing key performance indicators and designing monitoring & evaluation frameworks.

 

Health system redesign: Working across regional, national or provincial health systems to configure or redesign the combination of hospitals and patient pathways and shift the provision of care to settings that are more appropriate.

 

Hospital service planning: Hospital business planning and feasibility studies to assess the market/catchment population, package of services as well as the size and costs of re/developing new or existing hospitals.

 

Health IT: Leveraging technology and enhancing performance through systems selection, implementation project management, controls assessments, business process improvement and change management services.

 

Organisational architecture: Ensuring value is delivered through Public-Private Partnerships (PPPs) and outsourcing arrangements, mergers, acquisitions, divestments, joint ventures and shared services.

 

Municipal health services: Strategic and operational planning, Section 78 Assessments, monitoring and evaluation as well as by-law compilation.