Netcare Education (Pty) Ltd is a registered private higher education institution operating as the training arm of the Netcare Group, one of South Africa's largest private hospital and healthcare providers. Netcare Education is registered with the Department of Higher Education and Training (DHET) as a private higher education institution (registration number 2014/HE07/010) and its nursing programmes are accredited by the South African Nursing Council (SANC). The institution operates through two faculties: the Faculty of Nursing and Ancillary Healthcare (FNAH) and the Faculty of Emergency and Critical Care (FECC), the latter also offering public first-aid training. It maintains five campuses, located in Johannesburg and Pretoria (Gauteng), Durban North/uMhlanga (KwaZulu-Natal), Gqeberha/Port Elizabeth (Eastern Cape), and Cape Town (Western Cape), typically co-located with or near Netcare hospitals to give students clinical exposure within the group's hospital network. Netcare Group's official corporate site (www.netcare.co.za) states the education division dates back several decades, with sources citing origins from 1989. The institution's standalone domain, netcareeducation.co.za, is no longer functioning as an institutional site; current official information is published via the Netcare Group corporate website (www.netcare.co.za), including divisional and careers/education pages and applicant information brochures.
Qualifications & Programmes
- Higher Certificate in Nursing Auxiliary (R169)
- Diploma in Nursing (R171) – full-time, 3 years
- Post-basic specialist nursing programmes, including: Child Nursing, Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (ICU) Nursing, Maternity Nursing, Paediatric Cardio-Thoracic Nursing, Critical Care Nursing, Trauma and Emergency Nursing, Operating Room Skills, Anaesthetic and Recovery Room Nursing, Infection Prevention and Control Nursing, Orthopaedic Nursing (offered via the Faculty of Nursing and Ancillary Healthcare)
- Emergency Medical Services training and public first-aid courses (offered via the Faculty of Emergency and Critical Care)