With 2025 three quarters through, we express our heartfelt gratitude for your continued support and trust. May the rest of 2025 bring more success and growth for us all.
Our Cape Town Open Day was a great success on 17/5/25,
as well as our George Open Day on 19/07/25; next is our Worcester Open Day on 18 October ’25.
Please mark this in your diary.
We are also planning a few CME’s throughout the year
WORCESTER OPEN DAY
Cape Town 2025 Open Day was a huge success!
THANK YOU to ALL our SPONSORS
PLEASE SEE PHOTOS FROM OUR HIGHLY SUCCESSFUL 2025 CAPE TOWN OPEN DAY @ BMRI centre: US Tygerberg Medical School
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Any FP, Dentist, Physio- or Occupational Therapist, Dietician, Psychologist or other Health Care Practitioner:
VISION
To be the pre-eminent Independent Practitioner Association in the Western Cape.
MISSION
To provide Quality, Affordable, Sustainable, Equitable, Non-discriminatory Primary Healthcare to the patients of the Western Cape, through empowering our doctors, dentists and other medical and allied practitioners with clinical, business and ethical knowledge, as well as up to date practice information and assistance.
ALL CPC/QUALICARE STAFF STILL WORK PARTLY FROM HOME.
CONTACT CPC/QUALICARE AT 021 426 4777 FOR MORE INFORMATION
LATEST NEWSLETTER AVAILABLE HERE
CPC/Qualicare Office No:
021 426 4777 / (+27214264777)
LATEST FROM CPC/QUALICARE
2025 Open Day Related Reading Material RRM
CPC 2025 Open Day Related Reading Material (RRM) is now available for purchase:
10 CPD Point (2 ethical & 8 clinical). Contact your CPC Consultant or call: 0214264777, thank you
2025 – OHSC Inspection: Latest Information
Gauteng High Court places Sizwe/Hosmed Medical Scheme under provisional curatorship
CPD points have either not been captured by HPCSA or have been arbitrarily disallowed?
2025 – GEMS DISPENSING FEES INCREASE FOR DISPENSING NETWORK GP’s & FAMILY PHYSICIANS – BERYL & TANZANITE ONE OPTIONS
MEDiPOS will be administered by Discovery Health from 1 April 2025
Closure of CDE Managed Care Organization
We kindly ask that you communicate this development directly to your CDE Members. All claims will be honoured by us up to and including 30 April 2025.
2025 Reimbursement Rates & Plan Options offered by SA Funders
Please find a summary on the increases for schemes as well as the FP Network tariffs & new options or changes for 2025.
We will keep updating this, whilst we receive the information.
2025 – Polmed GP Nomination Form
Click the link above to download the files.
Kindly note that the main member & beneficiaries are encouraged to nominate their own network GP, ANNUALY! *Only the main member is allowed to nominate 2 Network GP’s
New Maximum Dispensing Fee
As per Government Gazette No: 51352, dated 4 October 2024
The Dispensing fee changes as follows:
The appropriate dispensing fee as contemplated in the Act to be charged by persons licensed & must be calculated, exclusive of VAT, as follows:
(b) Where the SEP of a medicine or scheduled substance is equal to or greater than one hundred and fifty rand (R150.00), the dispensing fee must not exceed forty-five rand (R45.00) [exclusive of VAT] in respect of that medicine or scheduled substance.
A new ‘PCNS Details Update Form’ as from 1/11/24
You only need to complete the form IF there are updates required for your practice to the address, email address, contact information etc.
Prescribed Minimum Benefits
In terms of the Medical Schemes Act No. 131 of 1998, Prescribed Minimum Benefits (PMBs) are a set of specified healthcare benefits that medical schemes must cover by law. This cover includes funding for the diagnosis, treatment, and ongoing care for the listed conditions. PMBs are designed to protect members from high healthcare costs for serious illnesses or emergencies.
Medscheme Digital Portal Introduction
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WARNING TO MEDICAL PRACTITIONERS
CPC/Qualicare has recently been informed of several break-ins and incidents where staff and patients were held at gunpoint and robbed of valuables as well as mobile phones in the Boland and surrounding areas. We urgently encourage you to institute emergency measures in your practices.
Medical certificates – what constitutes a “valid” medical certificate?
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Fix Hospitals first before NHI
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Dispensing and/or Prescribing requirements in South Africa
PAIA: Fees for Requested Information
Obstetric Ultrasound – Reporting & Documentation
2025 – Registered 72 Medical Schemes in SA
Tygerberg Poisons Information Centre:
0861 555 777 / (+27861555777)