Category Archives: H

Health Professions Council of South Africa (HPCSA)

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The HPCSA in conjunction with its 12 Professional Boards, is committed to promoting the health of the population, determining standards of professional education and training, and setting and maintaining excellent standards of ethical and professional practice. In order to safeguard the public and indirectly the professions, registration in terms of the Act is a prerequisite for practising any of the health professions with which Council is concerned. The Council guides and regulates the health professions in the country in aspects pertaining to registration, education and training, professional conduct and ethical behaviour, ensuring continuing professional development, and fostering compliance with healthcare standards. All individuals who practise any of the health care professions incorporated in the scope of the HPCSA are obliged by the Health Professions Act No. 56 of 1974 to register with the Council. Failure to do so constitutes a criminal offence.

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Highway Hospice (HH)

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The Highway Hospice is one of Durban’s oldest Non Profit Organizations. We have been providing Hospice and Palliative care for the eThekwini community for over 35 years. We plan to do so for many a year still as we believe it a right to have a beautiful life and dignity in death. It is our commitment to this philosophy that drives our famous levels of care during such trying times in life. We are your Hospice, and we are here for you! As a Hospice, we provide care for people with advanced, incurable terminal illness in the final stages of life. We promote Palliative care which is treatment focused on the patient as opposed to the disease. The goal is to, “make people feel better”. Not only physically by providing comfort but also emotionally, socially, practically, intellectually and spiritually. This starts at diagnosis and continues during treatment, and moves through to end of life as needed.

We provide Hospice care which is even more focused on the person; as it is provided once treatment has stopped. It is a specialized area of medicine as a lot of the focus is on comfort, pain management and symptom control where most medicine is focused on fighting disease for cure. Both Palliative care and Hospice care have the same focus, they both promote an improved quality of life.

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Helicopter Association of South Africa (HASA)

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Since the early days, HASA has been at the forefront of fighting with the powers that be to cut down the amount of red tape to operate and maintain helicopters in South Africa. We are not alone in this struggle, as this is a worldwide phenomenon, and we learn from our associate members like Helicopter Association International (HAI). In 2014, we also become an associate member of the Middle East & Africa Helicopter Association (MEAHA).

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Hout Bay Residents and Ratepayers Association (HBRRA)

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The underlying core belief of the Hout Bay Residents and Ratepayers Association (HBRRA) is that the economy is a wholly-owned subsidiary of ecology, that without the environment there can be no economy. We focus on the environment of Hout Bay in its broadest sense – human, natural, heritage and built – and we strive to protect the interests of all who live or work here. To this end we liaise closely with our Ward Councillor and bring issues of community concern to his attention and the attention of other authorities through the various public participation mechanisms available.

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Healthcare Workers Care Network (HWCN)

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The Healthcare Workers Care Network (HWCN) is a nationwide healthcare worker support network which offers all healthcare workers across the public and private sectors free support, pro bono therapy, resources, training and psychoeducation. The HWCN already has over 500 volunteer mental health professionals, including psychiatrists, psychologists, GPs, registered counsellors, and social workers, who will provide help, intervention, and support to all healthcare workers. These include doctors, nurses, community healthcare workers, field workers, hospital or clinic personnel, including hospital laundry staff, and porters.

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Historical Association of South Africa (HASA)

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The Historical Association of South Africa is the oldest professional organisation in the country for historians specialising in aspects of southern African history. The Association has as its main objective the furtherance of history as a discipline in particular the study and understanding of the history of South Africby means of the following:

Ø the encouragement of history as a subject in South African universities, colleges of education and schools;
Ø the improvement of the quality of the teaching of History as a subject generally;
Ø the development and awareness of the importance of History;
Ø by publishing historical journals/magazines;
Ø by publishing any other publications of a historical nature and by supporting the publishing of historical material;
Ø by collecting historical documents and archival material and depositing them to the relevant South African archives;
Ø by promoting historical documents and archival material and depositing them to the relevant South African archives;
Ø by promoting historical museums through collecting relevant pieces for the museums;
Ø by co-operating with statutory bodies and other institutions involved with the preservation or restoration of historical artefacts (and articles); and
Ø by working together with other organisations to promote common ideals.

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