The Council for Health Service Accreditation of Southern Africa (COHSASA) assists a range of healthcare facilities to meet and maintain quality standards. It does so by enabling healthcare professionals to measure themselves against these standards and monitor improvements using our quality improvement methods, internationally accredited standards and a web-based information system.

Our work shows us that strictly applied quality improvement methods can improve patient safety and the quality of care by identifiying deficiencies, guiding interventions and monitoring progress. We also identify impediments to improvement and develop strategies to overcome them.

COHSASA provides data on the quality of health service provision to governing authorities so that it can be used to make cost-effective strategic decisions. In the past 16 years over 588 facilities have entered the COHSASA programme.

COHSASA is accredited by the International Society for Quality in Health Care (ISQua). Its current award is valid until 2015.