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Department: Healthresponsiveness to health plant, building, machinery, and equipment breakdowns, implementing scheduled maintenance to prevent such breakdowns, and replacing aging infrastructure and technology. The optimization of Human Resources for Health necessitates the establishment of accountable management teams and a workforce that is engaged, performance-driven, and committed to excellence. The development and implementation of the National Health Insurance (NHI) is the pathway that the Country has chosen to attain Universal Health Coverage. The implementation phase of the National Health Insurance (NHI) has been extended to 2026. There is a steady improvement towards NHI readiness. All eight districts in the province are implementing NHI programmes and will continue to prioritise the re-engineering of Primary Health Care programme, particularly the number of WardBased Outreach Teams (WBOT) with Community Health Workers providing outreach preventive healthcare. This programme will be further strengthened by the integration with other departments through the Provincial Integration Areas programme whose goal is to improve integrated service delivery and pooling of resources at the community level and across departments and State-Owned Enterprises. 1.6 The Acts, rules and regulations The legislative mandate of the department is derived from the Constitution of the Republic of South Africa section 27 and several pieces of legislation passed by Parliament. In carrying out its functions, the department is governed mainly by the following Acts and regulations: %uf0b7 Foodstuffs, Cosmetics and Disinfectants Act 54 (of 1972). %uf0b7 Health Professions Act 56 (of 1974). %uf0b7 Pharmacy Act 53 (of 1974, as amended). %uf0b7 Dental Technicians Act 19 (of 1979). %uf0b7 Allied Health Professions Act 63 (of 1982). %uf0b7 Chiropractors, Homeopaths and Allied Health Service Professions Act 63 (of 1982). %uf0b7 Human Tissue Act 51 (of 1989 as amended). %uf0b7 South African Medical Research Council Act 58 (of 1991). %uf0b7 Births and Death Registration Act 51 (of 1992). %uf0b7 Occupational Health and Safety Act 85 (of 1993). %uf0b7 National Roads Traffic Act 93 (of 1996). %uf0b7 National Health Laboratory Service Act 37 (of 2000). %uf0b7 Mental Health Care Act 17 (of 2002). %uf0b7 National Health Act 61 (of 2003). %uf0b7 Nursing Act 33 (of 2005). %uf0b7 Prevention and Treatment of Drug Dependency Act 70 (of 2008). %uf0b7 Choice of Termination of Pregnancy Act 1 (of 2008). %uf0b7 International Health Regulations (2024). 168