OUR CAPITALS
Our Intellectual Capital
SANBS is an organisation with exceptionally strong intellectual capital, and also recognised as a centre of excellence.
What intellectual capital means to SANBS
At SANBS, Intellectual Capital encompasses the expertise and knowledge within our organisation. It serves as a key driver enabling us to carry out our mission and achieve sustainable growth.
Our employees
SANBS has a talented, skilled and trained workforce of 2 776 people (FY22:2 612). We employ a range of skills including health care specialists such as doctors, nurses, technologists, technicians, phlebotomists, scientists, and all the various supporting roles in the health care sector. Important too, are supply chain experts in our logistics space and IT specialists, accountants, and business professionals, etc.
Leadership
Experienced Board
Our Board comprises of twelve individuals with with a diverse skills base and experience in governance roles. See details of our Board.
Experienced Exco
We have an experienced Executive Team who have a combined 127 years tenure at SANBS. New skills brought on board allow fresh thinking and challenge. See our Executive Committee.
Quality
Quality is a crucial part of SANBS and is fundamental to us being a trusted provider of blood and blood services to the citizens of South Africa. Quality processes ensure we are able to track our activities and manage them optimally, from the screening process of blood donors to the transfusion of blood products to patients.
The quality teams are integrated into the operational areas and are approached as advisory experts.
Optimal quality of SANBS is achieved through
Product Compliance to the Standards
Most notable are:
Acknowledgement as a centre of excellence
Acknowledgement of SANBS as a centre of excellence is rapidly being confirmed by national and international peers and stakeholders through ever-increasing invitations to participate, present or lead national and international meetings, publications and working groups.
Over the past year, we have successfully continued our strategy of expanding research and publication capacity among a growing proportion of SANBS employees and divisions, with 14 publications in peer-reviewed scientific journals A number of these were authored/co-authored by first-time authors from the SANBS team.
Research, Advisory and Development
The journey to transform SANBS by embracing change and empowering our people to deliver outstanding results was the main reason we created the SANBS RAD Academy, with great pride in 2021.
The vision of the RAD Academy is to “future-proof SANBS, its people, products and processes” in support of the SANBS iHEALTh strategy.
The Academy started with the organisation recalibrating its approach to transforming learning and innovation. Oversight of the RAD academy is by the Clinical Governance Committee.
Our achievements to date
The Academy has four strategic goals with clearly aligned outputs for each goal.
We are progressing well with the initiatives relating to each of these goals as demonstrated in the tables that follow. All outputs in green have been achieved/done; those in black are in progress and on track; the one output in amber is behind regarding new users. One output shown in red will be resolved as part of the HR structure planning when a dedicated instructional design team is established.
| Goals | Implement a business aligned structure | Expand knowledge production | Structured knowledge dissemination | Create a renewal and proactive learning environment |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| What this means for SANBS | Governance, human resources and infrastructure developed to support successful implementation and execution of the Academy strategy | Knowledge translated into improvements in transfusion medicine practices and blood service quality | Technical assistance that enables policy framework development, institutional and infrastructure design required to run an effective blood service | A motivated workforce with appropriate mix of scientific people and business skills to successfully execute the SANBS mandate of saving lives |
| Output |
