The purpose of this document is to consolidate procedures drawn from different sources into a single document to approve and endorse health research by the department. The intention is to standardize approval and endorsement of health research using a single reference document.

This document is designed with a vision to improve access to health care for all and health outcomes. It has strategic priorities to develop and employ new professionals and cadres to meet policy and health needs, to increase workforce flexibility to achieve this objective, to improve ways of working and productivity of the existing workforce, to improve retention, increase productivity and revitalize aspects of education, training and research.

This is an Act to amend the Health Professions Act, 1974, so as to amend and insert certain definitions, to provide for the requirements for removal of members from office, to provide for the absence of the president from council meetings, to provide for the functions of registrar and staff, to provide for the investigation of members whose names have been removed from the register and to provide for the publication of the register by electronic means.

This policy guideline applies to both South African citizens and non-South African citizens wishing to register as medical practitioners in South Africa. Therefore, it clarifies the processes to be followed for the approval of applications by South African citizens and non-South African citizens to qualify for independent practice as medical professionals and outlines the regulatory and legislative frameworks that apply.

This document provides 7 guidelines for administering injectable artesunate for severe malaria.

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.

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.

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.

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.

**Not an English document**

**Not an English document**

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.