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.
The HASA CONFERENCE AND EXHIBITION 2009 held at the prestigious Elangeni Hotel in eThekwini on 03-05 June 2009 was a resounding success hosting 290 delegates and 20 partner companies. Durban was an oasis of warmth just as a cold front rolled through the rest of the country, and surely the air of warmth and favourable weather lifted the spirit of the delegates.
Dr Molefi Sefularo, the honourable Deputy Minister of Health, shared the stage with the chairperson of Hasa Dr Nkaki Matlala to officially open this conference reminding delegates of the important task of improving the broader healthcare system. The event comprised of groundbreaking research, analysis and intense discussions by the best minds in the healthcare industry. To read all about the 2009 conference visit our conference pages.
TODAY IS INTERNATIONAL NURSE'S DAY and HASA’s Board of Directors and staff would like to thank every nurse in our member hospitals for their hard work and dedication to private patients in South Africa. You are the pillar of health care.
Without nurses no hospitalisation is possible and our industry would collapse. Without hard-working nurses we would never have achieved the status of being the fourth best health service in the world. Our doctors would not be able to provide cutting edge surgery in our theatres without dedicated theatre nurses.
We offer each one of you a bouquet of good wishes and thanks from the bottom of our hearts, not just for today, but for every shift worked in our hospitals.
Please be advised of an alert issued for suspected Swine Influenza cases.
Attached (download below) please find relevant guidelines for surveillance, laboratory diagnosis and management of patients with suspected Swine flue A/H1N1 as issued by the NICD.
THE NURSING STRATEGY FOR SOUTH AFRICA 2008 offers a comprehensive approach to address the challenges faced by the nursing profession. Developed by members of the nursing profession in support of the department’s efforts to reposition nursing, the strategy purports to articulate the link between nursing practice, education and training, nursing leadership, nursing regulation, social positioning of nurses, resources and the national health system. It is aimed at addressing as a matter of urgency the challenges faced by nursing in South Africa.
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.
