Western Cape Department of Health walks away with Top Performing Government Award
24 Jun 2011
On Thursday night, 23 June 2011, Prof Craig Househam, Head of the Western Cape Department of Health, won the Top Performing Government Leader Award at the Annual African Access Business Awards held at the Sandton Convention Centre in Johannesburg.
The awards is considered the premier awards event for South African businesses. The annual awards ceremony recognises and honours the top performers of the year in both business and industry and government. Prof Househam has been a driving force behind the many positive changes made to the health landscape in the Western Cape since he took over in 2001. Since the approval of his brain child, Healthcare 2010, the department has implemented policies and programmes that have led to many improvements in service delivery and patient experience.
"The award we received last night is testament of a team of experts working well within a unit. Winning this award demonstrates that we are moving in the right direction when it comes to providing healthcare to our citizens. We have offered much of ourselves and going forward we will offer even more to be rated the best provincial Department of Health in the world for healthcare," says Professor Craig Househam, Head of Western Cape Department of Health.
With an illustrious career in medical science, Professor Househam, with a wealth of experience, obtained his MB CHb and MD at University of Cape Town in 1973 and 1986 respectively. From 1996 to 2001, he was the Deputy Director General: Head of Health in the Free State. Professor Househam led the vision to a new strategic direction for the Western Cape called Healthcare 2010. This has seen the transformation of healthcare services which led to service improvements, effective management, reaching service delivery targets and achieving unqualified audits.