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Life Healthcare
- 📅 Application Deadline: 31 July 2025
📍 Location: Life Healthcare hospitals across South Africa
🕒 Duration: 12 months
💰 Stipend: Competitive monthly allowance
Programme Overview
- Life Healthcare invites final-year pharmacy students to apply for its Pre-Registration Pharmacy Internship Programme beginning in 2026. This national programme offers hands-on training within one of South Africa’s leading private healthcare networks.
Why Join Life Healthcare?
- One of South Africa’s largest private hospital groups
- Operates 66 facilities across Southern Africa
- Listed on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange (JSE)
- Over 17,000 healthcare professionals employed
- Committed to ethical healthcare, skills development, and service excellence
- Includes Life Health Solutions (corporate wellness) and Life Nkanyisa (rehabilitation & long-term care)
What Interns Can Expect
Practical Training In:
- Dispensing medication
- Patient counselling
- Drug preparation and compounding
- Inventory and stock control
- Using drug information systems
Professional Exposure To:
- Clinical pharmacy programmes
- Antimicrobial stewardship
- Quality assurance and medication safety
- Financial and operational aspects of pharmacy
- Continuing professional development (e.g. site visits to wholesalers/manufacturers)
Structured Support:
- Mentorship and continuous feedback
- Coaching for SAPC internship competencies
- Support for the pre-registration exam
- Guidance on quality improvement projects
Ideal Candidate Profile
- Applicants should demonstrate:
- Strong academic performance
- Leadership potential
- Effective communication and teamwork skills
- Passion for pharmacy and healthcare
- (Optional) Part-time or volunteer experience in the field
Participating Hospitals by Region
- Eastern Cape
- Life Beacon Bay Hospital
- Life St Dominic’s Hospital
- Life Queenstown Private Hospital
- Life St George’s Hospital
- Western Cape
- Life Bay View Hospital
- Life Kingsbury Hospital
- Life Vincent Pallotti Hospital
- KwaZulu-Natal
- Life Chatsmed Garden Hospital
- Life Entabeni Hospital
- Life Mount Edgecombe Hospital
- Life Crompton Hospital
- Life Westville Hospital
- Gauteng (Selection)
- Life Brenthurst Hospital
- Life Flora Hospital
- Life Fourways Hospital
- Life Wilgers Hospital
- Life Eugene Marais Hospital
- Life Bedford Gardens Hospital
- Life The Glynnwood Hospital
- Free State
- Life Rosepark Hospital (Bloemfontein)
- Mpumalanga
- Life Cosmos Hospital (eMalahleni)
- Life Midmed Hospital (Middelburg)
- North West
- Life Anncron Hospital (Klerksdorp)
- Life Peglerae Hospital (Rustenburg)
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