Hospital phone directory and on-call rosters for clinicians in South Africa
WardLine is how clinicians reach each other.
Find the ward, the department, or the person on call at a hospital anywhere in South Africa — and get them on the phone in two taps.
THE DIRECTORY
• Extensions, bleeps and switchboard numbers for hospitals across South Africa, in one searchable list.
• Your own hospital opens first, so the numbers you use every day are one tap away. Every other facility is a search away.
• Numbers dial correctly from outside the hospital — WardLine adds the right prefix, so an extension works from your mobile.
• Search by ward, department or specialty, in any word order: "icu adult" finds Adult ICU.
• Star the numbers you call often.
KEPT RIGHT BY THE PEOPLE WHO USE IT
A directory is only worth having if it is current, so everyone using WardLine can maintain it:
• Add a number that is missing.
• Correct one that has changed.
• Confirm one you have just rung, so the next person knows it still works.
• Flag one that is wrong — without needing to know the right answer.
ON CALL
• See who is on call, by day and by specialty.
• Call or WhatsApp the person on call straight from the roster.
• Hospitals that publish a daily roster have theirs brought in automatically. Everywhere else, add and edit the rows yourself.
• Corrections you make to a published roster stay put — the next import leaves your fix alone.
CLINICAL REFERENCE
The clinical content is all still here:
• Emergency protocols and quick reference.
• A step-by-step CPR guide, based on the Resuscitation Council of Southern Africa algorithm.
• Essential Medicines List browser.
• Paediatric and neonatal guidelines, including a phototherapy threshold calculator.
• eGK gatekeeping codes.
• Blood products, EDD and gestational age, and other ward references.
• Rotation schedules and intern resources.
WHO IT IS FOR
WardLine is built for doctors, nurses and allied healthcare staff working in South African hospitals. It needs a WardWiZ account, which takes a minute to create inside the app.
DISCLAIMER
WardLine is a reference and workflow tool for qualified healthcare professionals.
Contact details are maintained by the clinicians who use the app, and can be out of date or wrong. Confirm a number before relying on it, and never let a directory lookup delay an emergency call.
Calculators and protocol summaries are aids only. They do not replace clinical judgement, local hospital policy, or the advice of a senior clinician. Always check critical decisions, drug doses and thresholds against the current official source documents before acting.