22/10/2026
๐๐ฒ๐ฎ๐ฑ๐ฒ๐ฟ๐ ๐ผ๐ณ ๐๐ฅ๐๐๐ฆ ๐ก๐๐ฟ๐๐ฒ๐ ๐๐ผ๐ฟ๐๐บ ๐๐ถ๐ด๐ป ๐๐ฒ๐บ๐ฝ๐๐ผ๐ป ๐ฃ๐ฎ๐ฟ๐ธ ๐๐ฒ๐ฐ๐น๐ฎ๐ฟ๐ฎ๐๐ถ๐ผ๐ป ๐ฎ๐ ๐ฐ๐๐ต ๐๐ฅ๐๐๐ฆ ๐ก๐๐ฟ๐๐ถ๐ป๐ด ๐๐ผ๐ป๐ณ๐ฒ๐ฟ๐ฒ๐ป๐ฐ๐ฒ ๐ฐ๐ผ๐ป๐ฐ๐น๐๐ฑ๐ฒ๐.
KEMPTON PARK - The executive leaders of the BRICS Nurses Forum have signed the Kempton Park Declaration on Thursday 22 October, at the conclusion of the 4th BRICS Nursing Conference that was held between 21 and 22 October 2026 at the Emperor's Palace in Kempton Park, South Africa, which makes a clarion call to action for governments and the Forum to work towards improving the healthcare and nursing systems of the BRICS+ communities.
South Africa hosted the conference, through its national nursing association, DENOSA, and working with QUAD members, namely: the Chief Nursing Officer representing the Health Ministry, South African Nursing Council (SANC) as regulator, the Forum of University Deans of South Africa (FUNDISA) and College Principals and Academic Staff of South Africa (CPASSA) from the academia.
The Declaration was signed by the presidents of the national nursing associations of the BRICS countries. In the declaration, the BRICS Nurses Forum leaders resolved, based on the presentations delivered at the conference over the two days, that the roles and scope of practice for nurses is dynamic and should be more geared towards supporting the people's optimal health in all ages of life and preventing many healthcare gaps in nursing care.
The declaration expresses concern with nursing gaps in some of the BRICS countries, which affects almost half the population of the world as the BRICS+ countries make up 3.9 billion people. The declaration also acknowledges that nurses form the larger group of health professionals in the healthcare systems of the BRICS countries, and that they deliver higher proportion of direct patient or client care and have close contact with the large number of patients.
The Declaration committed to:
- Promoting safe staffing for better health outcomes.
- Supporting the implementation of Universal Health Coverage (UHC) for better health outcomes.
- Contributing towards fighting NCDs through advocacy for healthy living.
- Leveraging on the benefits of digital health approach to accelerate access to mitigate real threat to the future of the BRICS nations' health services.
