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BHF Leadership Academy
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Learning Opportunities at the BHF lEAdErSHip ACAdEMy
The BHF Leadership Academy launched the following workshops in 2021: A Women Empowerment Workshop; Ethics & Governance Training; POPIA Compliance Training for Medical Schemes and a customised In-house Trustee Development Programme. These workshops aim to equip the sector with essential tools to navigate the constantly evolving and complex healthcare ecosystem and be responsive to the needs of all health citizens.
Women Empowerment Workshop
The Women Empowerment Workshop themed Empowered Women Empower Women – Building networks to accelerate gender equality in healthcare, was held in October 2021. Over 80 organisations from Botswana, lesotho, South Africa, Mozambique, and Zimbabwe attended this event. The workshop programme, which featured women who are trailblazers and experts in their various fields within the healthcare space, covered an array of topics around how women can be empowered and empower each other within the workforce.
KEY HIGHlIGHTS FROM THE SESSION:
More than 60% of Africa’s healthcare workforce and providers are female, and in some cases the figures hit 80%, according to the 2021 Africa Foresight Report. The breakdown shows that 21.7% of white women are in top management positions, compared to 6.8% of black/African women, 2.9% of coloured women, and 5.8% of Indian women. This is one of the issues delegates raised at the recent Women Empowerment Workshop.
Panellists at the BHF workshop agreed that there is power in networking, but that women often find it difficult to step out of their comfort zones to engage in such activities compared to their male counterparts. PROUDLY SUPPORTED BY
POPIA Compliance training Workshop
In the second workshop held in November, Nick Keene, Director, Solutions Management Work at Microsoft joined Dr Debbie Pearmain, an Independent Legal Consultant, as presenters of the POPIA Compliance Training workshop .
KEY HIGHlIGHTS FROM THE SESSION
Digital transformation and cloud transformation are severely hindered if full digital transformation is not realised.
The healthcare sector and private health industry are very information driven and that makes us responsible for how we implement POPIA. PROUDLY SUPPORTED BY
Ethics and governance training Workshop
What is the role of governance in healthcare and why it is important was the theme of the last workshop on ethics and governance, which was held in November 2021.
This session focused on the role of the ethics and governance framework, as this has never been a more critical era in the South African healthcare system to ensure accountability for continuously improving the quality of care for all.
KEY DISCuSSION POINTS:
KING 4 (integrated reporting)
Why schemes go under curatorship
Ethics in healthcare: A practitioners guide
Compliance for schemes – where are the potholes?
Preparing for COFI and the twin peaks model of governance PROUDLY SUPPORTED BY
Trustee Development PROGRAMME in-house training
Customised to your requirements
For more info email marym@bhfglobal.com
