Table 2.

Key stakeholders’ perceptions on the attributes of the South African Notifiable Diseases Surveillance System by role, training and participation on committees in 2015, (%)

	Acceptability	Flexibility	Simplicity	Timeliness	Usefulness
Overall sample (N = 107a)	25	51	74	45	61
Area of Responsibility
Health Management	14	50	100	86	100
Disease Detection	30	44	75	38	56
Disease Control and Response	27	50	72	46	58
Other	0	100	50	0	60
Training in the NDSS	29	61	77	41	68
Participation on NDSS Committees
National Outbreak Response Team	29	49	70	45	50
Provincial Outbreak Response Team	23	53	100	52	79
Malaria Elimination Committee	13	64	71	33	67
Surveillance Forum	30	50	74	47	57
EPI Committee	31	57	73	35	61

NDSS notifiable disease surveillance system

EPI expanded programme on immunisations

^a = 7 participants did not record their perceptions on the NDSS