It is a not for profit organisation that exists solely to further the interests of its member hospitals. To this end HASA involves itself with national and provincial forums of the Department of Health, as well as their related committees and personnel. We welcome you to our new website.
It is with great pride and honour to be a gate keeper of this website. This site takes pride in providing research-based and thought-provoking documents. The focus, in terms of content, has been more on the quality of information, resulting in carefully selected topics covering healthcare issues ranging from nursing and quality to in-depth healthcare analyses of medical inflation and its underlying drivers. Not only has the site been a valuable reference hub over the years, it has also become the kind of thermometer for the various burning issues raging in private healthcare today.
Nonetheless, this internet site proves that the private healthcare industry is a complex sector, which is over-simplified in popular newspapers. The Hospital Association of South Africa trusts that the site will add value and perspective to the intricacies of private healthcare and show how new developments impact on private hospitals.
HASA SUBSCRIBES TO THE COMPETITION LAW. At all times HASA members must ensure their compliance with related legislation and/or regulation, and in particular must ensure that with any discussion with any individual, institution, body and/or association, that their representations are compliant with Competition Law (see the Competition Act [Act No. 89 of 1998] ).
Update on Sections 55 and 56 of the National Health Act, 2003 relating to the removal of blood or other tissue, together with section 68 which permits the Minister of Health to make regulations relating to tissue, cells, organs, blood, blood products and gametes, has been promulgated. (In other words, has become law, as of the 17th of May 2010). Download The June 01 LegalWatch:
As South Africa approaches a new phase in its history, let us commit as public and private health care to working together. Let us in unity address the endemic challenges facing health care service delivery within the Republic. More importantly, let us come together to find innovative solutions within a mutually defined mandate of improved access and service delivery.
HASA CEO Adv Kurt Worrall-Clare represented South Africa at the US-Africa Private Healthcare Forum, an international gathering of private health experts and leaders held at Washington DC, US, today. Worrall-Clare's shared with the forum the strength, viability and the quality of care of the South African private hospital sector. South Africa’s private hospital industry is a national asset with a global reputation for delivering world-class, quality medical care. Together with the country’s healthcare fraternity, the industry can lay claim to a number of medical innovations. click below for the full presentation.
New Minister of Health Barbara Hogan and her deputy Dr Molefi Sefularo are a breath of fresh air and a healthy rejuvenation of the healthcare sector. Hogan brings in a consumer-based approach and a financial background to an otherwise underspending department. Sefularo has been at the coalface of healthcare delivery for the past 10 years as MEC for health in North West.
Lucas Malambe is Hasa's Executive Officer, Corporate Communications educated at the universities of the North and Witwatersrand. Malambe has a postgraduate qualification in Business Management and Economics from the University of Johannesburg where he is finishing his Masters in Commerce (Business Management).
He is also the editor of the prestigious research-driven publications Health Annals and the monthly Hasa News.
He has seven years experience in public communications having worked for DRUM magazine as a health journalist, sub-editor, and columnist. Lucas also worked for Lifeline Southern Africa interfacing with the organisation's various publics. At this time he contributed regularly to publications such as Business Day's Health Supplement and Mshana as a health correspondent and health-advice columnist respectively.
The annual Hasa Awards of Excellence are part of the Ministerial Healthcare Awards. This year's theme is Quality is Excellence. The process to find the best of the best in the private hospital industry is nearing its end. The Health Excellence Awards 2010 will take place in November 2010 and the deadline date for submission of entries is 07 October 2010.
The Children’s Act 38 of 2005 (as amended). How does it affect healthcare?
Several outstanding provisions of the Children’s Act [Act 38 of 2005] have become operational. The relevant Government Gazette has made the date upon which the law became operational as being 01 April 2010.
Update on Sections 55 and 56 of the National Health Act, 2003 relating to the removal of blood or other tissue, together with section 68 which permits the Minister of Health to make regulations relating to tissue, cells, organs, blood, blood products and gametes, has been promulgated. (In other words, has become law, as of the 17th of May 2010). Download The June 01 LegalWatch:
The Hospital Association of South Africa is a non-statutory body; the Association will gladly act as a mediator and will investigate an incident on behalf of a patient, or relative.
