GAUTENG HEALTH EXPENDITURE CONTINUES TO BE WITHIN BUDGET
THE financial performance of the Gauteng Department of Health is continuing to show signs of recovery with the department managing to remain within budget at the end of the third quarter of the 2013/14 financial year.
By the end of December 2013, the department had spent 73% (R20 888 billion) of its total budget of R28 770 billion budget, according to the third quarter performance report to the Gauteng Provincial Legislature. Compared to the budgeted payments of the third quarter, the department spent less by 1.3%.
Gauteng Health MEC Hope Papo said: "The department's quarterly financial performance is consistent with the expenditure recorded at the end of the last financial year which ended on the 31st March 2013 where the department recorded no over expenditure for the first time in a decade.
"The 2012/13 budget allocation was fully spent by the end of the financial year - with a reported 99% total expenditure. The only area that reported an over expenditure was Goods and Services which can be attributed to the payment of accruals from previous financial years."
The third quarter expenditure has again shown an over-expenditure on goods and services as well as transfers to municipalities as a result of accruals.