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Primary Healthcare (PHC) Standard Treatment Guidelines (STGs) and Essential Medicines List (EML) 7th edition - 2020

Type
Guides/Guidelines

The Primary Healthcare (PHC) EML and STGs allow for the management of patients with relatively common conditions at primary level of care. They also guide referral of patients with more complex or uncommon conditions to facilities with the skills and resources to provide further investigation and management. As such, they serve as a progression to Adult and Paediatric hospital level EMLs and STGs. The PHC STGs and EML should be used by healthcare workers providing care at clinics, community health centres, and gateway clinics at hospitals.

Primary Health Care (PHC) Laboratory Handbook

Type
Manuals and Toolkits
The aim of this toolkit is to entrench a common integrated approach to enhance the quality of PHC services and the standardization of clinic-laboratory processes. It further aims to ensure cost effective laboratory service utilization and finally to provide standardized systems and procedures for requesting laboratory tests, related specimen collection materials and for access to results.

Pregnancy Testing for all Women of Child Bearing Potential at all Levels of Care including HIV and TB Clinics

Type
Health Circulars
Early antenatal care (ANC) booking provides pregnant women with an opportunity and sufficient time to be screened and treated for any abnormal conditions detected as early as possible and where necessary, referral to the next level of experties (specialist midwife, doctor or hospital with specialist) for further management. Early detection of pregnancy is critical as women are given an opportunity to make an informed decision regarding the pregnancy in case it is unplanned.

Policy Guidelines on Seclusion and Restraint of Mental Health Care Users 2012

Type
Policies
To provide guidelines on the use of seclusion and restraint of mental health care users. Seclusion and restraint are regulated by the General Regulations of the Mental Health Care Act No 17 of 2002 to ensure that whenever they are used, appropriate procedures  are  followed  to  prevent  abuse,  injury  and  that  mental  health  care users are treated with dignity and their liberties are not infringed upon.

Policy Guideline on 72-hour Assessment of Involuntary Mental Health Care Users

Type
Policies
The purpose of the guide is to provide provincial heads of health on the requirements for listing of facilities to conduct 72-hour assessments and provide procedures to be followed when conducting 72-hour assessments on involuntary mental health care users and to provide clinical management guidelines on the assessment and treatment of mental health care users during 72-hour assessments

Policy for the Regulation of Quality Respiratory Protective Equipment (RPE) Supply in Healthcare

Type
Policies
This policy is developed by the National Department of Health (NDOH) Occupational Health & Safety (OHS) Quality Assurance Committee in conjunction with the South African Health Products Regulatory Authority (SAHPRA) and the National Regulator for Compulsory Specifications of South Africa (NRCS). The intention of this policy is to ensure that all health workers in South Africa are afforded access to quality respiratory protective equipment, and in particular half face particulate respirators.
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