STRATEGIC DIRECTION FOR 2015-2020
MDPCZ Mandate
The MDPCZ is a statutory authority established under the Health Professions Act (Chapter 27:19) to regulate the practice of medicine through registration, education and fitness to practice.
Review of Vision and Mission
Strategic themes are the main, high level MDPCZ strategies that form the basis for the organization’s business model and are decomposed from the organization’s vision and mission statements. These “pillars of excellence” or Key Result Areas (KRA) represent areas in which MDPCZ must excel in order to achieve its vision.
Mission
The Mission of the MDPCZ is: To promote the health of the public through licensing, education and regulation of the medical and dental professions.
Vision
The Vision of the MDPCZ is: To be the referenced regulatory authority in promoting excellence in standards of health care, education and ethics.
Values
Ethics
Professionalism
Justice
Continuous Quality Improvement
OVERVIEW OF STRATEGIC THEMES AND KEY RESULT AREAS (2015-2020)
1. Working with National, regional and International Partners
Identification of partners who are international organisations which share learning about effective ways to prevent, detect and deal with concerns about doctors’ practice.
2. High Standards of Professional Competence
All doctors have a legal requirement to keep their knowledge and skills up-to-date by meeting
Professional competence requirements set by the Medical and Dental Practitioners Council. Each year, a sample of doctors may be audited to ensure compliance as opposed to wait for complaints, and the Council has the power to institute disciplinary procedures where a doctor has been found to be neglecting this legal duty.
3. Professional Practice Guidance for Doctors
A process for reviewing existing and developing new guidance on ethics and professionalism for doctors has to be considered by the Council in 2016. There is need for developing and review professional standards of practice.
4. Doctors’ Health
The MDPCZ Health Committee plays an important role in supporting doctors to continue in practise during illness once there is no risk to patient safety. Doctors also need to be supported whilst under the Health Committee to get treatment and employment.
5. Business Process Improvement
a) Development of processes that will enhance the operations of the Council.
b) Developing of strategies that will ensure that the organisation, remain responsive to the changing environment to pursue the Council mandates.
c) The focus on operational efficiency should include developments in the organisation’s information technology, infrastructure, including the implementation of improved web filters, hardware and software to deliver the mandate of the Council.
KRA 1: Registration
- G1. Develop an Integrated effective and efficient registration system
- G2. Promote high quality health care service delivery through enforcing specific minimum standards.
- G3. Promote evidence based policies and practices through insightful research that promote patient’s safety.
- G4. Governance, customer stakeholder satisfaction and transparency in Council processes
KRA 2: Education
- G5. Promote Council certified accredited educational programs to the profession
- G6. Enhance quality education
- G7. Equity distribution of specialist care
KRA 3: Technology & Processes
- G8. Enhanced Council performance through use of ICT operational excellence through the use of up to date technology in medical services, education and training activities through ICT Systems
- G9. Update website content to promote integration, self-service especially in aspects of registration.
- G10. Financial Management
KRA 4: Fitness to practice
- G11. To enforce high standards of professional conduct.
- G12. Enhance high quality care practice
- G13. Enhance fitness to practice
Quality practice and fitness to practice
There is need to regularly update database to show doctors who were newly
Registered with the Council, entitling them to practise medicine in Zimbabwe, who withdrew their names from the medical register, those of retirement age, doctors who qualified outside Zimbabwe and within and how many of each category were leaving and analyse and mitigate to achieve high retention rate.
The Council must take steps to ensure that younger doctors are provided with the necessary support to develop a career in Zimbabwe, while doctors who qualified abroad are supported to stay and build a career in Zimbabwe.
Medical Report 2014
Enabling good practice
The Council’s work to promote high-quality education, training and lifelong learning, through postgraduate accreditation and professional competence, for example, is at an early stage when compared to other aspects of its work. An important area of focus for the Council will be to oversee the way its work develops so that it best supports doctors’ practice in a changing health system. A doctor’s practice of medicine is influenced not only by his or her knowledge and skills, but also by the environment in which he or she operates. The Council will focus on working with others, particularly in the area of clinical governance, to best support and enable good professional practice.
Doctors’ health
The health and wellbeing of doctors is important consideration in the delivery of healthcare services. Like their patients, doctors may experience difficulties with their physical and mental health that can impact on their ability to practise. The Council’s duty to support doctors whose ability to practise may be impaired is an important one, and the Council will focus on doctors’ health and preventative measures to support doctors during the course of its term.
The need for effective collaboration
For the Council’s work to have a real impact, it must be part of and positively contribute to the development of a wider environment that is focused on ensuring the safety of patients. It is important that the Council helps to shape health policy by collaborating with others in the health service and informing their work. The Council must lead by example and remain an independent and objective voice while also ensuring engagement and inclusivity.
PRACTICE CONTROL COMMITTEE
Objectives
Ensure Public Awareness Of Council Functions And Good Image Of The Council
Ensure Quality Health Care Practice
Enforcement Of High Standards Of Professional Practice
Ensure That All Practising Doctors Are Registered
Ensure Development And Enhancement of partnership with key stakeholders
BUSINESS AND FINANCE COMMITTEE
Objectives
- To Ensure A Financial Sustainable Council
- To Ensure An Effective Human Resource Council
- Financial Planning And Management
PRELIMINARY INQUIRIES COMMITTEE
Objectives
- Ensure Setting Of Standards For Doctors By Defining What Makes A Good Doctor In Terms Of Professional Values And Behaviours That Can Be Psychometrically Validated
- Ensure Patient Safety And Public Confidence In Health Care Practice
- Ensure High Standards Of Professional Conduct By All Registered Members
EDUCATION & LIAISON COMMITTEE
Objectives
- Enhanced Patient Care Safety
- Ensure Defined System Of Quality Assurance To Enhance Standards For Medical Education And Training
- Ensure High Quality Standards of Practice
HEALTH COMMITTEE
Objectives
Ensure Fitness to practice of practitioners through structured rehabilitation process
AUDIT COMMITTEE
Objectives
- Ensure Effective Management Of Risk
- Ensure Financial Reporting
- Ensure Minimum Risk In Council Process
SECRETARIAT
Objectives
- Ensure Implementation Of Council Programmes
- Ensure The Effective Delivery Of Services Within All Departments
- Ensure Effective Communication With Stakeholder
- Ensure Enhancement Of Council Image
- Ensure Risk Management
- Ensure Effective And Efficient Council Human Resources Functions
- Ensure Clean Audit Reports