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  • Home
  • ECIPA Healthcare leadership
  • Benefits of a GP joining ECIPA
  • Capitation contracts
  • Upcoming events
  • Sponsorship & collaboration
    • Advertising on this Website
    • CPD Webinars
    • ECIPA printed Calendar
    • ECIPA CPD Symposium (annual)
    • ECIPA Exco & Board meetings
    • ECIPA General Meetings (monthly)
  • ECIPA General Meetings
  • Africa Health
  • BHF
    • Contact details of BHF
  • COIDA – IOD’s
  • Competition Commission
  • Corporates in healthcare
  • Covid-19
    • Anti viral meds for COVID
    • Covid-19 News
    • COVID-19 Stats
    • Dept of Health – COVID-19
    • Genomic surveillance
    • Immune system & COVID-19
    • Isolation & Quarantine info
    • Ivermectin
    • Long Covid
    • Management of Covid-19
    • Olfactory impact of Covid
    • Other infections during COVID-19
    • Paediatric COVID-19
    • Pregnancy and COVID-19
    • Regulations – COVID-19
    • Sequelae of COVID-19 infection
    • Testing for COVID-19
    • Travel Requirements – Covid-19
    • Vaccination – Covid-19
      • Boosters – Covid-19 Vaccine
      • Inhalable Covid Vaccine
      • J&J vaccine
      • Life insurance & the vaccine
      • Myocarditis due to mRNA Vaccine
      • Pfizer vaccine
      • Vaccine Adverse Reactions
      • Vaccination (Covid) circulars
      • Vaccination sites
    • Variants – COVID-19
    • Workplace policy – Covid
  • CPD Library
    • Allergic disease
    • Allergic rhinitis
    • Anaemia – CPD
      • Iron Deficiency Anaemia
    • Antenatal Care
    • Anticoagulants
    • Asthma
    • Cervical cancer CPD
    • Chronic disease management
    • Covid-19
    • Dermatology
    • Diabetes Mellitus
    • Ethics CPD’s
    • Haematology – CPD
    • Hepatitis B Infection
    • Hepatitis C
    • Hyperlipidaemia CPD
    • Hypertension
    • Hypothyroidism
    • Neuropathy due to Covid
    • Pathology tests
    • Peripheral Vascular Disease
    • POPI ACT
    • PPI’s – Proton Pump Inhibitors
    • Prescribed Minimum Benefits
    • Prostate cancer
    • Smoking/tobacco
    • Strategic purchasing
    • Urology
      • Erectile dysfunction
  • CPD resources
  • Cybersecurity
  • Death certificates
  • Department of Social Development
  • Dispensing licence
  • Drug-drug interactions
  • ECIPA CPD Conferences
    • 2025 ECIPA Conference: 12-13 April 2025
    • ECIPA Women’s Health Conference 25-26 Oct 2025
  • Emigration
  • Ethics
    • Difficult patients
  • Exercise
    • Benefits of Exercise
  • Financial wellness
    • Retirement annuity
  • Fraud, waste and abuse
  • Gender based violence and Femicide
  • General news & information
    • Electricity – South Africa
      • Energy action plan
  • Health Calendar
    • January
    • World Autism Day
  • Health economics
  • Health standards compliance
  • Honouring Colleagues
  • HPCSA
    • Age exemption from HPCSA fees
    • Annual renewal – HPCSA
    • Disciplinary action by HPCSA
    • HPCSA card
    • CPD status
    • Criticism of HPCSA
    • Deceased Drs – de-registration from the HPCSA
    • HPCSA Fees
    • Restoration – HPCSA
    • Voluntary erasure from HPCSA
  • Human resources in healthcare
    • Discipline pertaining to staff
    • Dismissal due to incapacity
    • National minimum wage
    • Uberisation of healthcare
  • Humour
  • Inspirational
  • Insurance health cover
  • Invitations & Courses
  • Investments
    • Retirement annuity
  • IPA’s – Independent Practitioner Associations
  • Malpractice
    • Malpractice claims/cases
  • Medical Certificates
  • Medical Innovation
  • Medical Library
    • ADHD
    • Adverse effects of medication
      • Statins & risk of developing diabetes
    • Ageing
    • Antibiotics
      • Antibiotic resistance
    • Artificial sweeteners
    • Asthma
    • Cancer
      • Cervical Cancer – HPV
    • Cannabis
      • Regulations-Cannabis
    • Cholera
    • Clinical care pathways
    • Deep vein thrombosis
    • Dermatology
      • Eczema
    • Diabetes info
      • Diet – Diabetes
        • Low Carb Diet
        • Remission of Diabetes
      • Intermittent fasting & Diabetes
    • Prevalence of diabetes
    • Elder Care
    • Endocrine
    • Gene therapy
    • Heat stroke
    • Hepatitis
    • HIV & AIDS
      • Anti-retroviral rx guidelines
      • Drug resistance regimens 2024 -HIV
      • Injectable antiretrovirals
      • Pharmacists prescribing ART
      • Post exposure prophylaxis (PEP)
      • Pre-exposure prophylaxis – HIV
      • Variants – HIV
      • Viral suppression
    • H. Pylori eradication
    • Measuring blood pressure
    • Hypercholesterolaemia
      • Hypertension in medical library
    • Immunisation
    • Infectious diseases
    • Influenza
      • Antiviral treatment of flu
      • Rubella
      • Management of Influenza
    • Lupus
    • Malaria
    • Mental Health
      • Adolescent and child mental health
      • Africa – Mental Health
      • Alzheimer’s Disease
      • Anxiety
      • Depression
        • Aetiology of depression
        • Antidepressants
      • Dimentia
      • Resources for Mental Health
      • Suicide
      • Youth – Mental Health
    • Monkey pox
    • Neuroscience
      • Mind-body connection
    • Nutrition
    • Obesity
      • BMI
      • GLP 1 receptor agonists – obesity
    • Parkinson’s disease
    • Paediatrics
      • Cancer in childhood
      • Sudden unexplained childhood death
    • Personalised medicine
      • Cost & scaling of Personalised Medicine
    • Rabies
    • Sex and gender
    • Sexual medicine
    • Sexually Transmitted Diseases
      • Syphilis
    • Sleeping sickness
    • Smoking – Tobacco
    • Substance abuse
      • Dagga – cannabis
      • Signs of addiction
    • Supplements
    • Technology and Health
    • Tobacco and alternatives
    • Tuberculosis
    • Value based care
    • Wound care
  • Medical schemes
    • BHF
    • Discovery Health
      • Chronic application Discovery
      • Flexicare
      • Health ID 2
      • Formulary- Discovery
      • Keycare plus
    • GEMS
    • Low cost options
    • Medical schemes – meds & consult paid together
    • Medimed Essential Option
    • Membership of medical schemes
    • PPO Serve
    • Prescribed minimum benefits (PMB’s)
    • Sizwe-Hosmed Essential Copper option
  • Medical school training
  • Medico-legal info
    • Medical certificates
  • NHI
    • Certificate of Need
    • GP contracting
    • NHS in UK
    • Presentations on NHI
    • Regulations/Other NHI info
  • Notification of diseases
  • Nurse based private clinics
  • Outbreaks
  • Outcomes measurement & results – OMR
  • Patient centred care
  • Patient health records
  • PCNS Fee
  • Pharmacies
    • Dischem pharmacies
    • Medirite pharmacies
  • Photo Gallery
    • Clinical gallery
      • Dermatology gallery
    • Ecipa CPD Conference 12-13 April 2025 at the Radisson Hotel
    • ECIPA Women’s Health Conference photos 25&26 Oct 2025
    • ECIPA Lifetime Achievement Awards 17.2.2024
    • Ecipa Lifetime Achievement Awards – official photos 17.2.2024
  • Population-based healthcare
  • Practice management
    • Authorisation
  • Preventive healthcare
    • Circumcision
  • Primary healthcare
  • Public Health Sector
    • Employment of Medics
    • Finances public sector
    • Free health services – Public Sector
    • Gqeberha
    • Infectious diseases
      • Measles
    • Medical negligence in public sector
    • Nursing
    • Primary Healthcare
    • Public hospitals – E. Cape
    • Referrals to Public Sector
      • OOPD Livingstone Hosp
  • Publications
    • Medical Chronicle
  • Regulations
    • Competition Act
    • Health Professions Act
    • Inspection of practices
    • Labour – Basic Conditions of Employment
      • Compliances – Labour- Basic conditions
    • Mental Health Act
    • NHI regulations
    • POPI Act
    • Prescriptions
    • Witchcraft suppression act
  • Road Accident Fund – RAF
  • School education
  • Security
    • Articles on security
    • Public sector security
  • Social media
  • Social Responsibility
  • Specialists contact details
  • Tariffs
    • 2024 GP Tariffs
    • 2025 GP tariffs
    • GP Tariffs 2023
    • Insurance reports tariffs
    • Ultrasound tariffs
  • Technology
    • Artificial intelligence
      • Artificial intelligence in healthcare
    • Digital aspects of healthcare
    • Remote monitoring
    • Uberisation of healthcare
  • Telehealth
    • Pros & Cons of Telehealth
  • Useful Links
    • ICD10 coding
  • Vaccinations
    • Pneumococcal vaccine
  • Wellness of Medics
  • WHO
  • Workmen’s Compensation
    • Covid Vaccine side effects – Workmen’s Compensation
  • Billing types: practitioner fees – HPCSA
  • Home
  • ECIPA Healthcare leadership
  • Benefits of a GP joining ECIPA
  • Capitation contracts
  • Upcoming events
  • Sponsorship & collaboration
  • ECIPA General Meetings
  • Africa Health
  • BHF
  • COIDA – IOD’s
  • Competition Commission
  • Corporates in healthcare
  • Covid-19
  • CPD Library
  • CPD resources
  • Cybersecurity
  • Death certificates
  • Department of Social Development
  • Dispensing licence
  • Drug-drug interactions
  • ECIPA CPD Conferences
  • Emigration
  • Ethics
  • Exercise
  • Financial wellness
  • Fraud, waste and abuse
  • Gender based violence and Femicide
  • General news & information
  • Health Calendar
  • Health economics
  • Health standards compliance
  • Honouring Colleagues
  • HPCSA
  • Human resources in healthcare
  • Humour
  • Inspirational
  • Insurance health cover
  • Invitations & Courses
  • Investments
  • IPA’s – Independent Practitioner Associations
  • Malpractice
  • Medical Certificates
  • Medical Innovation
  • Medical Library
  • Medical schemes
  • Medical school training
  • Medico-legal info
  • NHI
  • Notification of diseases
  • Nurse based private clinics
  • Outbreaks
  • Outcomes measurement & results – OMR
  • Patient centred care
  • Patient health records
  • PCNS Fee
  • Pharmacies
  • Photo Gallery
  • Population-based healthcare
  • Practice management
  • Preventive healthcare
  • Primary healthcare
  • Public Health Sector
  • Publications
  • Regulations
  • Road Accident Fund – RAF
  • School education
  • Security
  • Social media
  • Social Responsibility
  • Specialists contact details
  • Tariffs
  • Technology
  • Telehealth
  • Useful Links
  • Vaccinations
  • Wellness of Medics
  • WHO
  • Workmen’s Compensation
  • Billing types: practitioner fees – HPCSA
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