Erratum: The contribution of family physicians in coordinating care and improving access at district hospitals: The False Bay experience, South Africa.

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The contribution of family physicians in coordinating care and improving access at district hospitals: The False Bay experience, South Africa.

This short report describes three family physicians (FP)-led clinical governance interventions to strengthen the care access and coordination in an urban district hospital in Cape Town, South Africa. The actual experiences and their effects on health services are captured here. The report also describes a range of interventions from enhanced access to timely computer tomographic scans to determine definitive care, to creating a local referral forum between levels of care, which resulted in a renewed appreciation for the scope of services and illness burden managed by the district health system and to the establishment of an onsite echocardiology service at the local district hospital to enhance the identified burden of disease of the local community.

Multimorbidity in non-communicable diseases in South African primary healthcare.

Background: Multimorbidity in non-communicable diseases (NCDs) is a complex global healthcare challenge that is becoming increasingly prevalent. In Africa, comorbidity of communicable diseases and NCDs is also increasing.

Objectives: To evaluate the extent of multimorbidity among patients with NCDs in South African (SA) primary healthcare (PHC).