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The new human resources for health policy supports the need for South African family medicine training programmes to triple their output
‘Building the future with family doctors’ is the 2021 World Family Doctor Day theme.[1]. How does this theme align with our National Department of Health’s plans for the future of family medicine and primary care in South Africa? The much-awaited 2030 Human Resources for Health (HRH) policy represents a need for action for our discipline and the Department of Health, as highlighted in the accompanying strategic plan for 2020–2021 until 2024–2025.2 In the foreword, the Minister of Health highlighted:
In 2014, a national position paper critiqued the incorrect underlying assumptions in the previous version of the HRH policy, which appeared to consider family medicine as a subspeciality of medicine in a referral hospital setting, rather than a generalist discipline in the district health system (DHS).[5]. How is it possible that this erroneous assumption seems to persist despite the growing evidentiary basis on the contribution of family physicians (FPs) in the South African DHS?6
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The new human resources for health policy supports the need for South African family medicine training programmes to triple their output How to cite this article: Von Pressentin K.B. The new human resources for health policy supports the need for South African family medicine training programmes to triple their output.
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