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Guidelines For Administration of Injectable Artesunate for Severe Malaria
Ministry of Health, South Africa
This document provides 7 guidelines for administering injectable artesunate for severe malaria.
South Africa • • Health
National Guideline on conducting Patient Experience of Care Survey in Public Health Establishments
Ministry of Health, South Africa
The guideline aims to provide the legal and policy framework that governs the need to consult with patients and clients. Its objectives are to describe the difference between Patient Satisfaction and Patient Experience of Care; to describe the frequency of obtaining feedback from patients; to describe the process of obtaining feedback from patients (conducting a PEC survey); to determine the level of patient satisfaction, and to improve or sustain service delivery.
South Africa • 2017 • Health
Multi-Drug Resistant Tuberculosis: A Policy Framework on Decentralized and Deinstitutionalized Management for South Africa
Ministry of Health, South Africa
This document provides a framework for health facilities and communities on how to manage MDR-TB patients closer to their homes. It describes decentralized and deinstitutionalized management of MDR-TB; elements of decentralized and deinstitutionalized MDR-TB care; and the types and functions of DR-TB units.
South Africa • 2019 • Health
National Emergency Care Education and Training Policy
Ministry of Health, South Africa
This policy applies to all current and prospective public and private emergency care personnel and EMS education and training providers. This policy aims to ensure the alignment of emergency care education and training with current education legislation, national education and training needs and imperatives of the national Department of Health to ensure the rendering of quality healthcare services to the population of South Africa. Its objectives are to develop an NQF-aligned framework for emergency care education and training; to facilitate access to, and mobility and progression within emergency care education, training and career paths; and to rationalize, enhance and maintain the quality of emergency care education and training programmes.
South Africa • 2017 • Health
Patient Register in Terms of Section 39 of the regulations to the Mental Health Care Act No. 17 of 2002
Ministry of Health, South Africa
This is a patient register in terms of section 39 of the regulations to the mental health care Act No. 17 of 2002 for health establishments that render mental health services. It contains a standard form format to keep records of patients.
South Africa • • Health
Umnyango Kazwelonke Wezempilo: Inqubomgomo Yolimi
Ministry of Health, South Africa
**Not an English document**
South Africa • • Health
Kgoro ya Maphelo ya Bosetšhaba: Pholisi ya Tšhomišo ya Dipolelo
Ministry of Health, South Africa
**Not an English document**
South Africa • • Health
National Department of Health: Language Policy
Ministry of Health, South Africa
This policy applies to all employees of the National Department of Health. It provides a complaints mechanism to enable members of the public to lodge complaints regarding the use of official languages by a national department, national public entity or national public enterprise and It stipulates how official languages will be used in effectively communicating with the public, official notices, government publications, and inter and intra-government communication.
South Africa • • Health
National Guide for Healthy Meal Provisioning in the Workplace
Ministry of Health, South Africa
This guide is for all staff particularly those responsible for planning, purchasing and preparing food and beverages for workplace functions and meetings, to assist them to provide healthy food and beverages as it guides on selecting healthy options. The guide applies to caterers catering for workplace meetings and events caterers that make food and beverages available for purchase by staff, visitors and the general public on workplace premises such as at a canteen or coffee shop vending machines and kiosks service providers. It serves as a guide in selecting foods and beverages for various workplace events, meetings, conferences, workshops, outdoor/off-site events.
South Africa • 2016 • Health
Medicines and Related Substances Amendment Act, 2015
Ministry of Health, South Africa
An Act that amends the Medicines and Related Substances Act, 1965 to provide for the objects and functions of the Authority; to provide for the composition, appointment of chairperson, vice-chairperson and members, disqualification of members, meetings and committees of the board of the authority, and to require the minister to consult with the pricing committee when prescribing acceptable and prohibited acts in relation to bonusing.
South Africa • 2015 • Health
National Policy on Nursing Education and Training
Ministry of Health, South Africa
The policy outlines the basis for a uniform framework, within which nursing education leading to professional registration in the various categories of nursing is provided. It further provides a mechanism for improving the coherence of the nursing education system and indicates seamless articulation between qualifications, thereby enabling students to move more efficiently over time from one programme to another.
South Africa • • Health
National Emergency Care Education and Training Policy
Ministry of Health, South Africa
This policy applies to all current and prospective public and private emergency care personnel and EMS education and training providers. It aims to ensure the alignment of emergency care education and training with current education legislation, national education and training needs and imperatives of the national Department of Health in order to ensure the rendering of quality healthcare services to the population of South Africa.
South Africa • 2017 • Health
National Consolidated Guidelines
Ministry of Health, South Africa
The main purpose of these guidelines is to improve the clinical outcomes of people living with HIV, reduce morbidity due to TB/HIV co-infection, reduce HIV incidence and avert AIDS-related deaths in the most cost-efficient manner by ensuring that people living with HIV start with the right therapy at the right time. It hopes to provide standardized and simplified less toxic treatment, which is harmonized amongst pregnant women, breastfeeding mothers, adolescents and adults in both the private and public sector and to simplify guidance for health workers to improve the quality of HIV care for all people living with HIV and HIV-exposed Infants.
South Africa • 2014 • Health
National Health Bill
Ministry of Health, South Africa
A bill to amend the National Health Act, 2003, so as to amend a definition and to insert new definitions; to provide for the legal recognition and requirements of a durable power of attorney for health care and a living will; and to provide for matters connected therewith.
South Africa • 2019 • Health
Guidelines for the Management, Prevention & Control of Meningococcal Disease in South Africa 2011
Ministry of Health, South Africa
This document aims to outline an approach to the management of a case of meningococcal disease, to strengthen the knowledge of the organism, the disease, the management of cases and contacts and encourage an appropriate public health response.
South Africa • 2011 • Health
Mental Health Care Act, 2002
Ministry of Health, South Africa
This Act aims to provide for the care, treatment and rehabilitation of persons who are mentally ill; to set out (different procedures to be followed in the admission of such persons; to establish Review Boards in respect of every health establishment; to determine their powers and functions; to provide for the care and administration of the property of mentally ill persons; to repeal certain laws, and to provide for related matters.
South Africa • 2002 • Health
National Guideline for Patient Safety Incident Reporting and Learning in the Public Health Sector of South Africa
Ministry of Health, South Africa
The purpose of this Guideline is to provide direction to the health sector of South Africa regarding the management of patient safety incident reporting, including the provision of appropriate feedback to patients, families/support persons and clinicians, and the sharing of lessons learned to prevent patient harm. It describes a nationally standardized system for managing patient safety incidents to ensure that various levels of care in the health system respond effectively to patient safety incidents. By doing so, patient safety is improved by learning from failures of the healthcare system so that the likelihood of a recurrence of the same event is significantly reduced.
South Africa • 2017 • Health
Guidelines for Maternity Care in South Africa: A Manual for Clinics, Community Health Centres and District Hospitals.
Ministry of Health, South Africa
Chapter one of this document provides an overview of the current situation and data on maternal care in South Africa. Chapter two describes the different levels of care in the South African health system and explains the reasons behind the need for various levels. Chapter three outlines the standards for the clinical structure and content of patient records. The fourth chapter discusses the basic aspects of antenatal care, as a supplement to the national BANC protocols. Chapter five discusses the steps to take to support all aspects of labour from diagnosis to delivery.
South Africa • 2015 • Health
Management of Rifampicin-Resistant Tuberculosis: A Clinical Reference Guide
Ministry of Health, South Africa
This document defines Drug-resistant tuberculosis (DR-TB) as an active tuberculosis disease caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis bacilli that are resistant to one or more anti-TB drugs. It outlines the roles of the PCACs and NCAC and provides information on diagnosis.
South Africa • 2019 • Health
Integrated School Health Policy
Ministry of Health, South Africa
This policy is developed to guide the provision of a comprehensive, integrated school health programme which is provided as part of the PHC package within the Care and Support for Teaching and Learning (CSTL) framework. Its specific objectives include providing preventive and promotive services that address the health needs of school-going children and youth with regard to both their immediate and future health; supporting and facilitating learning through identifying and addressing health barriers to learning, and supporting the school community in creating a safe and secure environment for teaching and learning.
South Africa • • Health