Circular 9/2022 Unidentified deposits for 2022 Annual Fees

Circular 9/2022: Unidentified deposits for 2022 Annual Fee payments


11 August 2022

To:          National Department of Health

                 Provincial Departments of Health

                 Private Health Providers

                 All stakeholders

 

SUBJECT: UNIDENTIFIED DEPOSITS: 2022 ANNUAL FEES PAYMENTS

 

  1. PURPOSE

1.1. The purpose of this circular is to address a growing concern that the South African Nursing Council (SANC) is currently experiencing regarding the payments which are made by the Nurse Practitioners without including their SANC reference number together with the service they are paying for.

1.2. This circular also seeks to outline the process which should be followed for tracing and reallocation of incorrectly referenced payments or payments that are made without any reference whatsoever.

  1. BACKGROUND

2.1 During the 2022 Annual Practising Certificate season, the SANC received a high number of payments for annual fees which were not properly referenced, therefore, many of these payments could not be allocated to the Nurse Practitioners’ SANC membership accounts. As a result, the Nurse Practitioners could not be issued with their Annual Practising Certificates and were removed from the Register for non-payment of annual fees.

2.2 We urge the Nurse Practitioners who know that they have made payments for their 2022 annual fees but are removed from the register for non-payment of 2022 annual fees to urgently contact the SANC so that we can assist them in tracing their payments, and where successful, allocate the payments to their SANC membership account.

2.3 The South African Nursing Council uses the Reference Deposit Account for payment of Fees and Fines payable by our stakeholders. The reference consists of two parts:

2.3.1 Your SANC reference number (8 digits) – which is used to identify who the payment is for.

2.3.2 A payment type code (7 CAPITAL LETTERS) written immediately after the SANC reference number – which is used for identifying what the payment is for.

The following line is an example of what a correct reference will look like when making annual fee payment:

12345678ANLFEES

In the above example, ‘12345678‘ is the Nurse practitioner’s SANC reference  number and ‘ANLFEES‘ is the payment type code.  You will notice that the payment reference number is always 15 characters long.

PLEASE NOTE that the above reference is only an example, and you should not use the    above details for making any payment.  You must use your own SANC reference number as the reference followed by an appropriate payment type code.

2.4 Listed in the tables below are all the PAYMENT TYPE CODES that are in use at the South African Nursing Council:

TO BE USED BY INDIVIDUALS 

Section
of the
Regulations

Payment
Type Code

To be used for paying for:

7(1)(a)

ADGUILT

Admission of guilt fines

2(1)(c)

ANLFEES

Annual Fees

2(1)(g)

APPFEES

Application Fees (foreign applications)

2(1)(k)

CETSFEE

Certificate of Status Fee

2(1)(l)

DUPCFEE

Replacement Certificate Fee

2(1)(m)

EXAMFEE

Examination Fees (foreign application exams)

2(1)(n)

EXTRFEE

Extract Fees (extract from the register)

2(1)(q)

LATEFEE

Late Entry Fees (foreign exam applicants)

2(1)(s)

ADDQUAL

Registration Fees (additional qualifications)

2(1)(t)

ASSESSR

Registration Fees (assessors, moderators, verifiers)

2(1)(v)

REGFPRA

Registration Fees (practitioners)

2(1)(x)

REMAFEE

Remarking Fees (exams)

2(1)(y)
2(1)(z)

RESTFEE

Restoration Fees

2(1)(aa)

TRANFEE

Transcript of Training Fees

2(1)(b)

VERIFEE

Verification Fees

 

SALEDDS

Purchasing of Distinguishing Devices

 

POSTAGE

Postage

 

OTHRFEE

Other fees or payments (not mentioned above)

 

TO BE USED BY INSTITUTIONS/ORGANISATIONS/COMPANIES 

Section
of the
Regulations

Payment
Type Code

To be used for paying for:

2(1)(a)

ACFLEEN

Accreditation Fees – Nursing Education Institution

ACFRENE

Accreditation Fees – Reaccreditation of a Nursing Education Institution

2(1)(b)

ACFNEPR

Accreditation Fees – Nursing Education Programme

2(1)(c)

ANLFEES

Annual Fees on behalf of your employees

2(1)(d)

ANNFNEI

Annual Nursing Education Institution Fee

2(1)(e)
2(1)(h)
2(1)(i)

APFAPCE

Application Fees

2(1)(j)

AUDVFEE

Audit Visit Fees

2(1)(m)

EXAMFEE

Examination Fees (candidates)

2(1)(o)

FVFCLNC

Focus Visit Fees (clinical facilities)

2(1)(p)

FVFENEI

Focus Visit Fees (nursing education institution)

2(1)(q)

LATEFEE

Late Entry Fees (exam candidates)

2(1)(s)

ADDQUAL

Registration Fees (additional qualifications)

2(1)(u)

REGFLEN

Registration Fees (learners)

2(1)(v)

REGFPRA

Registration Fees (practitioners)

 

OTHRFEE

Other fees or payments (not mentioned above)

 

  1. UNIDENTIFIED DEPOSITS

3.1 Affected Nurse Practitioners are required to send their proof of payment (not bank statement) and SANC reference number to apc@sanc.co.za or bmanganyi@sanc.co.za.

To enable successful tracing the proof of payment should at least have the following information:

3.1.1 Beneficiary/Recipient Account Number

3.1.2 Beneficiary/Recipient Reference

3.1.3     Date of payment

                     3.1.4     Amount Paid

3.2 The contents of this communique should be brought to the attention of all Nurse Practitioners in all health establishments.

3.3 The Nurse Practitioners are also reminded that according to Section 44 (2)(b) of the Nursing Act, a person whose name has been removed from the register must cease to practise as a Nurse Practitioner and is precluded from performing any act which he or she, in his or her capacity as a registered person, was entitled to perform.

3.4 For further information in respect of this communique, kindly contact Mr B Manganyi, Acting Manager: Revenue Collections and Sales at bmanganyi@sanc.co.za or Tel: 012 420 1081.

Yours sincerely,

(Signed)

MS SA MCHUNU                                                                                               

REGISTRAR AND CEO

SOUTH AFRICAN NURSING COUNCIL

 

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Media Release 1/2022 Training of Nurses in South Africa

Media Release 1/2022: Training of Nurses

4 August 2022

FOR ATTENTION   : NEWS EDITOR

SUBJECT                   : Training of Nurses 

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The South African Nursing Council (SANC) has taken note of comments made in the media, specifically in the Business Day (03 August 2022), regarding the training of Nurses in South Africa and reference made to student numbers for the private sector/hospitals.

The South African Nursing Council is a statutory body entrusted to set and maintain standards of Nursing Education and Practice in the Republic of South Africa, to protect the public. It is an autonomous, financially independent, statutory body operating under the Nursing Act, 2005 (Act No. 33 of 2005). Furthermore, the SANC may accredit Nursing Education Institutions (NEIs) and nursing education programmes. This is subject to compliance with set criteria, requirements and conditions. The SANC is statutorily obligated to ensure quality Nursing Education and Training is provided by such accredited NEIs.

Apparent statements made at the HASA Conference this past week that “the SA Nursing Council is blocking the training of new Nurses by preventing private hospitals from taking on more students” are factually incorrect, untrue and irresponsible.

Says Ms Sizeni Mchunu, Registrar and CEO of the SANC: “The decision on the number of students allowed at any NEI and clinical facility is made after consideration of various factors, ensuring that quality Nursing Education and Training will be provided by such accredited NEIs.”

The SANC needs to clarify that the approval regarding the number of students per intake is determined by several related factors which include the following, among others: 

  • Physical resources – the number and capacity of the classrooms including classroom equipment, the capacity and equipment of the clinical laboratory that will be used by the students as well as the size of the library and relevant study material.
  • Clinical Facilities
  • The number and size of health establishments that are used for clinical placement of students and number of students to be placed as stipulated by the respective Provincial Departments of Health, depending on the type of the Nursing programme to be offered;
  • The number of other Nursing Education Institutions placing students in the same clinical facilities;
  • The number and types of primary healthcare centres and statistics to achieve the Exit Level outcomes of the respective programmes;
  • Clinical Facilitator: Student ratio, in line with SANC guideline requirements for the respective programmes; and
  • Bed occupancy.

The SANC cannot act irresponsibly by having more students than patients in clinical facilities, thus compromising the quality of clinical learning as well as the safety of patients.

  • Human Resources
  • Lecturer: student ratio, in line with the respective programmes’ guidelines (lecturers should have appropriate qualifications and cannot teach the same level of programme outcomes that they have achieved);
  • Lecturers should be licensed to practice as nurses (Annual Practising Certificate); and
  • Years of teaching and clinical experience for the lecturers and clinical facilitators.

The SANC further notes HASA’s apparent statement that “the SANC’s restriction on the number of training places offered by private hospitals is undermining a HASA proposal tabled at the Presidential Jobs Summit in 2018 and that the private sector needs 50,000 Nurses to help tackle SA’s critical shortage of healthcare professionals”.

The statement in its generality is considered as gravely opportunistic and condescending, considering that each application for programme accreditation is evaluated on its own merit and strength.

The SANC is duty bound to ensure that quality Nursing Education and Training is provided in protection of the public and cannot compromise this obligation for any other interest outside production of safe and competent practitioners for patient safety.

The apparent statement made by Netcare Nursing Education Executive Toy Vermaak i.e. “Several years ago had their annual intake slashed by the SANC, with no rationale given for the change” is irresponsible and deliberately misleading. Ms Vermaak intentionally leaves out critical information, that she is well aware of, relating to the changes in Nursing Education and Training as informed by overall changes in the Higher Education landscape, a competency of the Department of Higher Education. Ms Vermaak is also aware of the rationale and reasons for such determinations.

ENDS

Issued by:

Mrs. Adri van Eeden

Senior Manager:  Communication and Marketing

South African Nursing Council

E-mail:  avaneeden@sanc.co.za

Website:  www.sanc.co.za

Tel:  012 426-9542

 

Official Spokesperson and person to be quoted:

Ms. S Mchunu

Registrar and CEO:  SA Nursing Council

 

For more information or to arrange for an interview with the Spokesperson, please contact Mrs. Adri van Eeden on Tel. (012) 426-9542 or email:  avaneeden@sanc.co.za