The Department of Family Medicine in the Johannesburg Health District has arranged a referral forum in each Sub-District/Region of the City of Johannesburg to ensure that referrals from local government and provincial clinics to provincial CHCs and then to provincial referral hospitals is streamlined and improved. Referral forums are being facilitated in the various Sub-Districts by clinical managers. See map below
All stakeholders are urged to join these forums, especially referral hospitals, so that referrals can be improved. We hope to peer-review all referrals, as well as utilisation of drugs, investigations etc based on amended essential drugs/investigation lists while increasing the number of doctors at local clinics.
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We are encouraging all stakeholders in this space to use Vula App to manage referrals upwards and downwards. All healthcare workers within Johannesburg Health District should choose the Johannesburg Department of Family Medicine and then their facility as their site of work. We would like to aid the process with a revised list of facilities in the district now provided, especially highlighting where doctors are present in facilities of the district. See more about Johannesburg Regions/Sub-Districts. See the List of Jhb Clinics. Please reach out to Vula App [(076 113 0536 / support@vulamobile.com] if you would like assistance as an institution.
In the light of NHI processes in Johannesburg Health District (here) and the need to communicate with private providers we urge all GPs and other private providers to join this process, with a representative per region / sub-district representing this constituency in the referral forums. In order to build up a database of GPs and other private providers we are requesting all private providers to fill in this form [https://forms.gle/QzFALBHThtMGqJjh9]
