CPD
Dear Shareholders and Members,
Following a massive objection from organised Independent Practitioner Associations (IPAs) and other doctor groupings representing GPs and specialists in South Africa, the HPCSA has today announced that any practitioners who were not compliant by 31 March 2025, still have an opportunity to rectify their CPD status as they have been granted a 3-month extension from 1 April 2025 to 30 June 2025, during which, non-compliant practitioners are advised to rectify their CPD status urgently.
Important changes to CPD status from HPCSA
The HPCSA would like to take this opportunity to thank the registered practitioners who are CPD compliant. Those who are not yet CPD compliant, have until 31 March 2025 to correct their compliance status. Each CPD point is now valid for 12 months from the date on which the activity took place. Practitioners are advised to view or update their CPD status by utilising the following link: https://hpcsaonline.custhelp.com
The amendments to the Continuing Professional Development (CPD) programme of the Health Professions Council of South Africa:
The HPCSA has approved that authorised facilitators and providers of CPD programmes to submit the attendance registers directly to the HPCSA in order to update the practitioner’s CPD profile. This has been effectively commenced for some professional boards, as implemented on 1 February 2022, while the rest of the CPD providers and facilitators agreed to commence their submission effectively on 1 March 2022.
The amendments to the CPD Guidelines for Family Practitioner
THE HPCSA is also taking an active stance against professionals who are found to be non-compliant with CPD audits. In this new booklet on CPD guidelines, they have changed the awarding of Ethics CPD points from 2 points per hour to 1 point per hour. This essentially means that Health Professionals will need to make double the effort to ensure that they have sufficient CPD points per year.
CPD points have either not been captured by HPCSA or have been arbitrarily disallowed?
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.
HOW TO CHECK YOUR CPD POINTS
1. Register at https://hpcsaonline.custhelp.com
2. Login after registration
3. Click on Online Services
4. Then go to the 3rd column: it says ‘Service Request’ and click on CPD update request
5. A window will then open which will indicate the 3 things, namely: MP number, whether the doctor is CPD compliant or not and “Click here to proceed.”
6. Click on “Click here to proceed” The CPD points of the relevant doctor will then appear