Healthcare compliance in South Africa
Private practices, clinics, pharmacies, wellness providers and the businesses that serve them.
Laws that usually apply
Sets patient-record confidentiality and other duties for health establishments and providers.
Health information is special personal information and has stricter conditions for processing.
Private bodies usually keep a PAIA manual and handle access requests, including patient requests.
Registered practitioners must stay registered with the HPCSA, pay annual fees, keep up CPD and follow the Ethical Rules.
Making, importing, storing, selling or dispensing medicines and devices needs the right licences and controls.
Applies to medical schemes, administrators and brokers, and matters to employers that sponsor medical aid.
Pharmacies and pharmacists register with the Pharmacy Council and renew every year.
Nurses must be registered with the Nursing Council in the right category.
Clinical settings have particular workplace hazards, from sharps to waste.
Employers register for injury-on-duty cover.
Shift work, overtime and leave are common pressure points in healthcare.
Where you supply goods or services to consumers, consumer rights can apply.
Templates you will probably need
What customers, tenders and funders often ask to see
- Privacy notice and consent wording
- Information Officer registration
- PAIA manual
- Breach response plan
- Staff confidentiality acknowledgements
Professional council rules, facility licensing and clinical standards are outside our self-assessments.
How ComplianceDesk helps
- Take the self-assessments above and see your gaps, free and without an account.
- Save a result to your organisation and each gap becomes a task with an owner and a due date.
- Fill in a template, save it to your Policy Library and track who has acknowledged it.
- Choose the filing dates that apply on the compliance calendar and get an email before each one.
Questions
Does using ComplianceDesk make us compliant?
No. The self-assessments show where you have gaps against each law and give you tasks, templates and reminders to close them. Compliance depends on what you actually do, and the content is a guide that an attorney should review before you rely on it.
Can I try the self-assessments without an account?
Yes. Every self-assessment is free to take, and your answers stay in your browser until you choose to save a result to an organisation.
Track it all in one place
ComplianceDesk turns each law into controls with owners, due dates and evidence.