Nhls.ac.za Website Review

the national health laboratory service (nhls) is the largest diagnostic pathology service in south africa with the responsibility of supporting the national and provincial health departments in the delivery of healthcare. the nhls provides laboratory and related public health services to over 80% of the population through a national network of laboratories.. 2001 - the national health laboratory service is established. the national health laboratory service (nhls) was established through legislation to combine all laboratories in the public health system. this moment aptly affirmed the pride of an unfolding country and transformed the public health service.. 2002 - the national institute for communicable diseases is established. the specialist communicable disease arm, the national institute for communicable diseases (nicd) was established under the nhls. this formation came into being through the merging of the national institute for virology, the virology laboratories and public health microbiology laboratories of the south african institute for medical research. minister manto tshabalala-msimang officially launched the nhls on 26 november.. 2004 - formation of an umbrella agreement to govern relations. the national academic pathology committee, comprising of representatives from the faculty of health sciences from universities and technikons, formed a committee to develop an umbrella agreement to govern relationships between universities and the nhls. the sub-saharan arm of the geographic project of the national geographic society, which investigates genetic ancestry was. 2007 - nhls building strong customer relations with the public. a cooperate data warehouse was initiated to provide efficient access to data, focusing mainly on priority health programmes such as hiv, tb and cervical cancer. a call centre was established in this regard to improve accessibility of the public and help build strong customer the implementation programme for the new standardised laboratory information system trakcare was launched on 13 october.