Message from the Registrar
Online applications MANDATORY for Tutors, Interns, CSPs and Pharmacists after CSP registrations for 2015
One of Council’s primary strategies is to adopt a Go Green approach in the way it conducts business undertakings. One way this is being achieved (and saving trees in the process!) is through automating everyday business processes. Online applications for tutor approval, internship, community service pharmacists, and pharmacists upon completion of CSP are mandatory from 2015.
Please note that from 1 December 2014 NO manual applications will be accepted for the following categories:
- BPharm student
- Interns
- Community Service Pharmacists
- Tutors
- Premises
- Shortcoming letters
The new online services being phased in bring a host of benefits to Council, the profession and stakeholders.
To submit these applications online:
- You will need access to the internet
- Go to www.sapc.za.org
- Go to “Registered persons click here”
- Go to “Request a password” if you do not have a password or have forgotten your password
Registration as a pharmacist intern
Application must be submitted online as soon as you receive sms confirmation that you are released.
You will have to go online and upload with your application:
- Certified copy of the original signed SAPC internship contract entered into by and between yourself and the tutor
- Certified copy of the qualification in pharmacy (BPharm) if qualified prior to 2013
- Academic interns – please note:
- documentary evidence that you have registered with a provider of qualification in pharmacy (university) for a course in study which will lead to at least a master’s degree
- full particulars of the proposed postgraduate study or research to be undertaken
- Registration fee: R1,867.40 (VAT incl).
Please note: Credit Card payments are processed faster than EFT/Bank Deposit payments - Please ensure you know the Y-number of the facility where you are going to do your internship (follow this link to utilise the search functionality on the council’s website)
Foreign graduates should follow the manual process – please note: a copy of a valid endorsement certificate from NDoH foreign workforce is required.
Click here to see the online process flow chart
Registration as a pharmacist for purposes of performing pharmaceutical community service (CSP)
Application must be submitted online as soon as you receive sms confirmation that you are released.
You will have to go online and upload with your application:
- Certified copy of the qualification in pharmacy (e.g. BPharm degree)
- Documentary evidence of the name of the public health facility or complex of health facilities where you have been placed to perform pharmaceutical community service and the envisaged date of commencement of such community service (signed copy of letter of appointment/employment) on a provincial letterhead
- Registration fee – pharmacist: R3,180.22 (VAT incl)
- Annual fee – pharmacist: R1,630.28 (VAT incl)
Please note: Credit Card payments are processed faster than EFT/Bank Deposit payments
Foreign graduates should follow the manual process – please note: a copy of a valid endorsement certificate from NDoH foreign workforce is required.
Click here to see the online process flow chart
Registration as a tutor
You will have to ensure that:
- Your premises are approved
- You are up to date with annual payments
- You have the relevant experience, i.e:
- (a) <3 years (Pharmacy Support Personnel)
- (b) >3 years (3 Pharmacy Support Personnel + Intern); Academia (5 interns)
- You have submitted four CPD entries
Click here to see the online process flow chart
Registration as a pharmacist after CSP
Your head of pharmaceutical services (HoPS) in your province should complete the online sign-off process to confirm completion of CSP
- Remember to pay your 2015 annual fee for a pharmacist: R1,630.28 (VAT incl) – before 2 February 2015
- CSPs with foreign qualifications in the military or correctional services should follow the manual process.
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