With 2025 wide open before us, we extend our heartfelt thanks for your support.
May the year ahead bring more success and growth for us all!
Our Cape Town Open Day will take place on 17 May 2025 (please see invitation below),
our George Open Day on 19 July 2025, & the Worcester Open Day on 18 October 2025.
Mark it in your diary in the meantime.
We are also planning a few CME’s throughout the year
CAPE TOWN OPEN DAY
Cape Town, George & Worcester 2024 Open Days as well as the 2024 CME event were all a huge success! THANK YOU to ALL our SPONSORS
PLEASE SEE PHOTOS FROM OUR HIGHLY SUCCESSFUL 2024 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
CPD points have either not been captured by HPCSA or have been arbitrarily disallowed?
IN NEED OF URGENT CPD POINTS?
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.
Missing in Action: Where are my CPD Points???
It has come to our notice that the HPCSA has send out advisories that doctors are not up to date with their CPD points.
We send all of the CPD issued by CPC Qualicare to the HPCSA as per the HPCSA regulations within 2 weeks of any of our events and upon receiving and marking our ‘Related Reading Material’ (RRM), providing you score greater than 70% correct in your answers.
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
POPIA: Registration of Information Officers
Dear Shareholders and Members
Some doctors may have forgotten about POPIA as the website was non-functional last year.The web page still gives problems at times. The preferred method of registration is electronic:
New Registrations: https://eservices.inforegulator.org.za/user/login.aspx , but if you are having trouble registering electronically, please download the pdf document & send via email to: Registration.IO@inforegulator.org.za
THIS IS REQUIRED FOR POPIA COMPLIANCE AND FOR DATA PROTECTION
Tygerberg Poisons Information Centre:
0861 555 777 / (+27861555777)