{"id":234813,"date":"2021-08-10T14:47:58","date_gmt":"2021-08-10T13:47:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/buzzsouthafrica.com\/?p=234813"},"modified":"2021-08-10T14:48:02","modified_gmt":"2021-08-10T13:48:02","slug":"hpcsa-registration-procedure-and-how-to-get-your-certificate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buzzsouthafrica.com\/hpcsa-registration-procedure-and-how-to-get-your-certificate\/","title":{"rendered":"HPCSA Registration Procedure and How to Get Your Certificate"},"content":{"rendered":"
Given the inestimable value of human life, many countries have bodies regulating the activities of their health care professionals. In South Africa, the organization that is tasked with this all-important duty is the Health Professions Council of South Africa (HPCSA). A statutory body founded in 1974, HPCSA promotes the health care sector in the country by setting the standards of education, training, and registration for relevant health care professionals. The body also ensures ongoing professional competence through continuing education efforts.<\/p>\n
Another important mandate of the HPCSA is to ensure that practitioners uphold and maintain the professional and ethical standards of the healthcare profession. They take charge of the investigation of complaints concerning practitioners and in a situation where a practitioner fails to live up to ethical standards, the task now falls on the organization to impose an appropriate level of punishment on the defaulter. The HPCSA is therefore a body that no health care professional in South Africa can afford to mess with. One has to register with them and strictly comply with their regulations in order to ensure that they do not lose their professional license.<\/p>\n
As a healthcare professional, the fact that you have done your initial registration with the HPCSA and obtained your registration certificate is not enough. You are required to renew your membership of the HPCSA each year in order to have the license to continue to practice. This annual renewal of membership is done via the HPCSA portal as outlined below.<\/a><\/p>\n Note<\/strong> \u2013 Practitioners residing outside of South Africa who encounter problems with electronic online payments can make their payments to the HPCSA\u2019s account details as follows. Account holder – Health Professions Council of South Africa, Bank \u2013 ABSA, Branch code \u2013 334945, Account no – 405 003 3481, Swift code \u2013 ABSAZAJJ, Payment Reference – HPCSA registration no. The practitioner will be able to log in and view\/print their current practicing card, within 48 hours after proof of payment has been submitted and received at HPCSA.<\/p>\n As is obvious from the registration procedures outlined above, healthcare professionals are required to pay a registration fee to the HPCSA during their initial registration. They also need to pay annual renewal fees each year when applying to renew their licenses. These fees are used to run the 12 professional boards that make up the HPCSA as the organization does not receive any subvention or financial help from the government. It is the responsibility of the HPCSA to fix the registration and annual fees payable by healthcare professionals and they release a government gazette to that effect for each year. You will therefore need to search online in order to access it.<\/p>\n Meanwhile, a perusal of the HPCSA registration fee <\/a>and the annual fee<\/a> for the year 2021 will show that HPCSA registration and renewal fees typically start at a few hundred rands and can go as high as thousands of rands, depending on the category you are paying for. This is a bit steep but it is extremely important that one pays them to avoid unsavory consequences. For instance, if you do not pay the HPCSA registration fee, you will not get your registration certificate which effectively means you cannot practice your profession in South Africa. It is also a crime for you to use your professional title when you are not registered with the HPCSA.<\/p>\n It is also similarly important that you pay your annual renewal fees as failure to do so may result in your name being erased from the register. Annual fees are required to be paid on or before the 1st of April of each year. If you fail to pay three months after that date, then you stand the risk of your name being struck off the register which means that you are no longer licensed to practice in South Africa.<\/p>\n\n
How Much Is HPCSA Annual and Registration Fees?<\/strong><\/h2>\n
Exemptions From Payment of Annual Fees<\/strong><\/h2>\n