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Accreditations
COHSASA was delighted to host the face-to-face meeting of ISQua International Accreditation Programme (IAP) Council recently in Cape Town. The meeting brought together leaders in the field of quality improvement and accreditation from all parts of the globe. The Council is a sub-committee of ISQua’s board which supports ISQua’s International Accreditation Programme (IAP). The Accreditation Council is composed of 15 members of ISQua’s Accreditation Federation.
Interested stakeholders gathered at meetings at COHSASA headquarters in both August and October 2011 to begin the process of developing an accreditation programme for General and Family Practitioners in South Africa.
The 78-bed Tokollo District Hospital in Heilbron in the Free State has been accredited by COHSASA for a second time. This is an outstanding achievement because in spite of both human and material resource constraints, the facility has been able to reach international standards and maintain them over time.
Tokollo District Hospital, situated in the small farming town of Heilbron in the Free State province, has become the latest district hospital in South Africa to receive international standards accreditation by the Council for Health Service Accreditation of Southern Africa (COHSASA).





