Table 2

Professional nurses: trends in vacancy rates of ART posts (November 2004, to November 2006) as against all


ART posts
All PHC
posts
(August
2006)


District
November
2004
March
2006
August
2006
November
2006


Lejweleputswa
36.4%
8.0%
8.7%
8.0%
25.6%
Motheo
8.3%
4.6%
4.4%
0%
45.5%
Thabo Mofutsanyana
8.3%
4.6%
8.7%
13.0%
30.6%
Xhariep
46.2%
57.1%
42.9%
38.0%
54.4%
Fezile Dabi
45.5%
13.6%
18.2%
22.7%
35.9%

Total posts
28.8%
(of 59*)
16.8%
(of 113*)
15.8%
(of 114*)
15.7%
(of 115*)
37.1%
(of 1 664)

PHC posts (August 2006), per district (PERSAL data)

Note: The numbers of professional nurses differ from the original 60 (Phase I) and 112 (Phase I and II) professional nurse posts created for the ART programme; these differences are ascribed to the creation of additional posts at some of the larger sites later during programme rollout.

van Rensburg et al. Human Resources for Health 2008 6:15   doi:10.1186/1478-4491-6-15