Celebrating 30 years of uniting nurses

2023 UNIFORM ALLOWANCE

In 2022, parties in PHSDSBC signed a collective agreement, Resolution 1 of 2022 on the Provision of Nurses’ Uniform. The agreement stated that the employer will provide uniform to the nurses with effect from 1 October 2023. By so doing, the employer will no longer pay the uniform allowance to the nurses form the year … Read more

DENOSA KICKS OFF ITS THREE-DAY NEC MEETING IN PRETORIA.

PRETORIA – DENOSA has commenced its three-day National Executive Committee (NEC) meeting at the DENOSA Head Office in Pretoria, to sit between 20 and 22 September 2023. Over the next three days, the meeting will be discussing and reflecting on the many issues in the healthcare sector and zooming in on nursing matters. With nursing … Read more

DENOSA Limpopo statement post- its PEC meeting.  

Media statement Monday, 18 September 2023. POLOKWANE – The Democratic Nursing Organisation of South Africa (DENOSA) in Limpopo held its Provincial Executive Committee (PEC) meeting from the 14th to the 15th of September 2023 at Polokwane Royal Hotel in Polokwane to deal with the number of issues affecting nurses and healthcare services in the province.  … Read more

DENOSA fearful of the negative impact of austerity measures on patients and healthcare services.

Media statement. Friday, 15 September 2023. PRETORIA – As today marks the start of the National Treasury’s tight financial control measures or austerity measures in all national and provincial departments due to revenue constraints caused by the continued load-shedding and freight constraints, the Democratic Nursing Organisation of South Africa (DENOSA) is extremely concerned with the … Read more

DENOSA Northern Cape Media Statement on the Arrest of Northern Cape Department of Health Senior Officials for PPE Procurement.

Media statement. Friday, 25 August 2023. KIMBERLEY – The Democratic Nursing Organisation of South Africa (DENOSA) in Northern Cape takes note of the arrest of the HOD for Health, Dr Dion Theys, and other Department of Health senior officials on the charges of fraud, corruption, money laundering and contravening the Public Finance Management Act (PFMA), … Read more

DENOSA provincial gender structures attend three-day training workshop in Pretoria:

All the DENOSA provincial gender structures from across the country are attending a three-day gender training workshop from 22 to 24 August at the DENOSA Head Office in Pretoria. With the frequent occurrence of gender-related issues countrywide, and the reporting of many of these in the mainstream media, the country is talking of the need … Read more

DENOSA statement for Women’s Day: SA government must ratify ILO Convention 156

Media statement. Wednesday, 09 August 2023. PRETORIA – As today, 9 August, marks the commemoration of Women’s Day in South Africa, the Democratic Nursing Organisation of South Africa (DENOSA) calls on the government to speed up the ratification of the International Labour Organisation’s (ILO) Convention 156 to acknowledge the workers with family responsibility as well … Read more

DENOSA Western Cape statement on disruption of healthcare services due to the taxi strike.

Media statement Friday, 04 August 2023 CAPE TOWN – The Democratic Nursing Organisation of South Africa (DENOSA) in the Western Cape wishes to implore all employers in both public and private sectors to understand the volatility of the situation as caused by the taxi strike, which has also affected both the healthcare services and the … Read more

ICN LAUNCHES GLOBAL ONLINE LEARNING PLATFORM FOR ALL NURSES ON KEY NURSING AND HEALTH PRIORITIES:

The International Council of Nurses (ICN) announced the launch of a new global online learning platform to broaden nurses’ knowledge about issues that are vital to the profession and to global health. These free learning modules provide high quality Continuing Professional Development opportunities available to all nurses, which will be particularly useful for nurses in … Read more