PHF- Our Values & Founding Statement

Private Healthcare Forum Together For Better Health

The PHF is a platform to articulate sector views and opinions in the interests of sustainable and quality healthcare in our country. It aims of recognize and protect Healthcare in South Africa & thus exploit it’s potential and contribute more widely to the overall healthcare needs of the nation.

With This in Mind the Private Healthcare Forum stands for:

• Equitable access for all to a minimum package of essential healthcare services that are affordable within the economic constraints of the country;
• Freedom for citizens to acquire healthcare services in excess of the essential package;
• A regulatory and fiscal framework that promotes sustainability through market efficiencies and continuing investment;
• Continuous and efficient access to the most cost effective technologies, methods and products available globally;
• Synergy between the public and private healthcare sectors that leads to the efficient distribution and use of resources;
• Continuous improvements in healthcare outcomes through ongoing research, education and information management;
• Transformation towards a sector characterised by:
- Equitable access to quality services based on necessity;
- Ownership, management and employment structures that reflect the demographic profile of the population.

The Private Healthcare Forum strives to:

• Enhance the relationship between private sector stakeholders and government through the exchange of information and views relating to matters of policy and regulation;
• Recommend sustainable solutions to address market inefficiencies that impact adversely on the growth and sustainability of the healthcare sector;
• Promote the role of the private healthcare sector within the national health system envisaged by the government;
• Provide a channel for constructive engagement between its members and stakeholders on matters relating to the design and implementation of a transformation health charter;
• Build confidence in the private healthcare sector through informed engagement with the media and the investment community.

For details of the PHF statement of principles, Values & our mission Please Click HEre

For the Full PHF Constitution Please Click Here