Health training institutions decry accreditation delays
Health training institutions have called for a simpler, more coordinated accreditation system to reduce duplication and ease pressure on training programmes. They say long approval processes, repeated inspections and a shortage of clinical training sites are making it harder to train health professionals. The concerns were raised on Friday in Windhoek during the parliamentary standing […] The post Health training institutions decry accreditation delays appeared first on The Namibian .
Health training institutions have called for a simpler, more coordinated accreditation system to reduce duplication and ease pressure on training programmes.
They say long approval processes, repeated inspections and a shortage of clinical training sites are making it harder to train health professionals.
The concerns were raised on Friday in Windhoek during the parliamentary standing committee on education, youth, civic relations and community development’s consultation into the rapid growth of health training institutions.
University of Namibia (Unam) executive dean for the faculty of health sciences and veterinary medicine Cilas Wilders said the current accreditation system creates unnecessary work because regulators carry out separate assessments.
“We should harmonise accreditation by bringing the Health Professions Council of Namibia (HPCNA) into the existing joint accreditation model.
