Reduce HPCSA fees for Optometrists

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#1

I agree with this petition. Reduce HPCSA rates for Optoms!

(Johannesburg, 2020-03-04)

#8

I'm unsatisfied with the high hpcsa fees stipulated for Optometrists

(Park Rynie, 2020-03-04)

#12

We cannot afford an increase every year when our earning capacity as Optometrists is not increasing. Furthermore with the increased number of Optometrists the pool has increased. Surely this should subside the individual amount required per practitioner.

(Kwa-Zulu Natal, 2020-03-04)

#19

I feel like we are being robbed in daylight!

(Durban, 2020-03-04)

#20

Hpcsa fees are too high. True to what’s being said above. More especially for government practitioners.

(Pietermaritzburg, 2020-03-04)

#26

I agree 100% with the author

(Durban, 2020-03-04)

#28

I think the amount of fees we are paying is unfair

(Gauteng, 2020-03-04)

#31

After 35 years of paying more than other health care professionals I have not seen any improvement to services rendered in the public sector especially in the rural areas. Also optometrists should be allowed to dispense medication to common anterior segment problems.

(Durban, 2020-03-04)

#33

The price is too high.

(Uitenhage, 2020-03-04)

#34

I am signing this petition because i am affected by the high HPCSA fees that i pay annually as an Optometrist.

(Ubombo, 2020-03-04)

#37

Im signing because the fee amount is ridiculously exorbitant and is really becoming unaffordable especially if you are not working full time

(Johannesburg, 2020-03-04)

#39

Too high HPCSA fees

(Chatsworth, 2020-03-04)

#44

I find the fees exorbitant. Especially, since I am a part time optometrist.

(Durban, 2020-03-04)

#48

It is very expensive and there is absolutely nothing that HPCSA does to benefit me as an optometrist.

(Durban, 2020-03-04)

#51

We are paying too much unnecessarily

(Nongoma, 2020-03-04)

#52

I agree that our fees must be reduced

(Durban, 2020-03-04)

#53

We have been dictated too for far too long

(Ladysmith, 2020-03-04)

#54

I want reduction in our HPCSA fee , its too much

(Durban, 2020-03-04)

#55

This is an abuse! This is too much 🥴 we out here to try living but now we being ripped off.

(Ixopo, 2020-03-04)

#59

I don't agree with paying this exorbitant amount for Annual fees.

(Newscastle, 2020-03-04)

#65

These fees are ridiculous. Considering that Doctors pay just a little more than us is absurd.

(Johannesburg, 2020-03-04)

#70

The fees are a total rip off. Way to high. Just a few Rands less than a specialist. Why are we almost in line with GP fees who are Dr's and we have specialists fighting us on therapeutics which we won't even be paid more for. The whole optometric system is such a flaw.

(Pretoria, 2020-03-04)

#71

The annual fee needs to be reduced.

(Johannesburg, 2020-03-04)

#76

Optometrists are asked to pay fees of R2470 (2020 rate), almost as much as General Practitioners (R2500 (2020 rate)) who have the title of 'Doctor' before their name, and are placed in a much higher income bracket as compared to Optometrists.

Our aim, as Optometrists practicing in South Africa, is to call on the HPCSA to comfortably reduce these exorbitant rates for Optometrists as our income as primary eyecare practitioners does not, in any way, match that of a General Practitioner, nor are we given the title of 'Doctor'.

(Berea, 2020-03-04)

#83

I agree whole-heartedly. I can't understand why there isn't a somewhat standard fee structure for all professionals across the board.

(Durban, 2020-03-04)

#84

I also concur that the fees we pay are much higher then other Allied health workers I work in the public sector and is seen and grouped as a allied worker by DOH so I do not understand why I pay fees equivalent to those of Drs when my salary is reduced to half if not less

(Durban, 2020-03-04)

#87

I am an optometrist and I feel like the amount we paying is too much , not reasonable

(Polokwane, 2020-03-04)

#89

Fees are unjustified in relation to other board fees

(Durban, 2020-03-04)

#90

I feel it is unfair for optometrists to be paying so much, while we earn so little..we need to be in the same range as other primary health care providers.. This is abuse!

(Mount Frere, 2020-03-04)

#91

Fees must fall. Fees are exorbitant.

(Cape Town, 2020-03-04)

#93

These fees are ridiculous.

(Pietermaritzburg, 2020-03-04)

#97

It is too much,cannot afford

(Durban, 2020-03-04)

#103

I’m signing because I feel the HPCSA fees are very high and I will find it difficult to pay in this very economically challenging times.

(Johannesburg, 2020-03-04)

#104

The fees are ridiculous

(Johannesburg, 2020-03-04)

#108

We shouldn't be paying more than other similar allied health practitioners. Also the fee increase is more than 15% from 2019 which is unreasonable

(Johannesburg, 2020-03-04)

#109

Reduce hpcsa fees for optoms

(Middelburg, 2020-03-04)

#132

HPCSA annual fees for Optometrist is too expensive

(Johannesburg, 2020-03-04)

#135

I am signing because the HPCSA fee for optometrists are exorbitantly high.

(Durban, 2020-03-04)

#136

We are being charged compartively high fees as optometrists.

(Johannesburg, 2020-03-04)

#137

I don't understand why we have to pay so much while In the public health field we even paid less than our colleagues. How is this determined?

(Mogale city, 2020-03-04)

#139

I agree with the aforementioned reasons as outlined by Mr M Joosab.

(Durban, 2020-03-04)

#150

I think the fee is far too high for our profession in comparison to other professionals who do work far more at risk of neglect and malpractice than we are

(Randfontein, 2020-03-04)

#155

I'm signing because I would like to see a decrease in the annual HPCSA fees that Optometrists pay.

(Johannesburg, 2020-03-04)

#157

I struggled a lot with Hpcsa fees when I worked for the department of Health, could not cope with basic financial needs due to the low salary which is the same as that of a clerk which only needed a Grade 10 to be at that salary level, I still had to pay hefty Hpcsa fees, my manager, a registered nurse with only one year certificate on opthalmics earned a salary 4times that of mine but only paid R400 with nursing council annually. Now I'm in the private sector, better salary but still, this rate for optoms get underpaid even by medical aids is just unfair.

(Richards Bay, 2020-03-04)

#158

HPCSA fees are too high for optometrists!

(Durban, 2020-03-04)

#159

The fees are too high and theres basically no value matching that which we receive from the HPCSA

(JOHANNESBURG, 2020-03-04)

#161

Fees are extremely high compared to the other primary service providers

(Pinetown, 2020-03-04)

#170

I am signing this as I feel we are unfairly charged as optometrists.

(Ulundi, 2020-03-04)

#175

I'm signing this petition because our fees are a lot while we ern way less to be able to cover the fees

(Nigel, 2020-03-04)

#177

Fees too high

(Jhb, 2020-03-05)

#178

I’m signing because I think the rates are prejudicial and should be equal across the allied health professionals. The discrimination is unacceptable.

(Johannesburg, 2020-03-05)

#180

I cant afford to pay the current fees

(Johannesburg, 2020-03-05)

#186

The amount we are paying is too high.

(Tugela ferry, 2020-03-05)

#188

I'm am very happy to sign. I earn only 12 000 after deductions. I have a family back home to support, nsfas to pay back. This amount is way too high. We have always been abused. It's not fair to just double the amount from last year's which I literally paid just last month since I'm a new graduate. Please respect us.

(durban, 2020-03-05)

#189

I agree that the annual hpcsa is exorbitant.

(Tshwane, 2020-03-05)

#191

Optometrist earn less. We don't afford that amount. Some of them are still unemployed

(Brits, 2020-03-05)

#193

I feel the pain every year I have to pay this high HPCSA fee of which I don't even understand why because they are adding no value to my profession nor my life. They are just waiting for me to make a mistake so they can charge me. Ayi ayi ayi ayi ayi

(Dawn Park, 2020-03-05)