CPD for Nurses and Midwives (SANC)

Keep your professional development on track
As a nurse or midwife registered with the South African Nursing Council (SANC), you are responsible for maintaining your Continuing Professional Development (CPD) throughout the year. FOH is here to make the process easier. We provide relevant CPD activities, maintain records of your completed activities and submit your earned CPD points to SANC on your behalf.

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15 CPD points 1 July – 30 June

YOUR ANNUAL TARGET CPD CYCLE

Your SANC theme CPD Requirements

  • YOUR ANNUAL TARGET
  • 15 CPD points
  • SANC Theme
  • Ethical & Legal
  • Area of Practice
  • Leadership & Management
  • Teaching
  • Research
  • Total
  • CPD CYCLE
  • 1 July – 30 June
  • Points
  • 4
  • 6
  • 3
  • 1
  • 1
  • 15

Your points required per theme may differ depending on your registration type. Enrolled and auxiliary nurses need less points in the Ethical and Legal and more in the Area of Practice themes. 

CPD

Complete Your CPD Throughout the Year

CPD is an ongoing professional responsibility.

We recommend completing activities regularly throughout the July–June CPD cycle.

  • Build your CPD points gradually
  • Cover the required SANC thematic areas
  • Keep your professional knowledge and skills up to date
  • Identify any outstanding CPD requirements early
  • Avoid a last-minute rush to complete your CPD

We refresh our selection of activities annually to ensure diverse, high-quality content for your professional development.

Annual membership fees

Choose one annual membership option. The difference is the way the CPD material is supplied – not a different CPD requirement. These are annual fees, rather than a separate fee for every activity.

  • Membership
  • How it works

  • Best suited to

  • Annual fee
  • Online
  • Access and complete activities through the FOH website.
  • Members with reliable internet who prefer immediate digital access.
  • R646
  • Email
  • Receive CPD material and communication electronically by email.
  • Members who prefer to work from downloaded or emailed material.
  • R699
  • Hard copy
  • Receive printed CPD material. Delivery arrangements should be confirmed.
  • Members with limited internet access or those who prefer paper.
  • R872

Ready to make CPD simpler?

Join Focus on Health and work towards your annual CPD points through a practical, supported process designed for busy nurses and midwives.

Please read the Completion Guide before starting your first activity.

Activities are refreshed on a regular basis to ensure you get the most recent research available. For the 2026 / 2027 CPD cycle the following presents an overview of activities available.

AREA POINTS ACTIVITY NAME
Ethical and legal domains (EL) 3 – 4 PE2(26) – Overview of AI regulation in healthcare

PE6(26) – Back to basics. General ethical principles in healthcare

PE8(26) – That’s the future medicine. User experience of symptom checker apps

PE9(26) – In defense of causing patients to worry. Ethical issues in the communication of diagnostic uncertainty
Area of practice (AoP) 6 – 10 G1(26) – Basic pharmacology at a glance

G2(27) – Drug-drug interactions in older community-dwelling individuals (coming soon)

E1(27) – Adult basic life support – the 2025 AHA guidelines

E2(26) – Availability of antidotes for drug poisonings

E27(26) – Blood pressure management

G2(26) – What to do in an emergency
Leadership and management (LM) 1 – 3 Q1(27) – Nursing leadership – Key element of professional development

Q2(27) – Engaging leadership and nurse well-being the role of the work environment and work motivation

Q3(27) – The power of leadership transforming nurses’ professional attitudes through the balance theory
Teaching (T) 1 – 2 G3(27) – the 2025 AHA guidelines for the prevention, detection and evaluation of high blood pressure in adults (coming soon)

E1(27) – Adult basic life support – the 2025 AHA guidelines (coming soon)

G3(26) – the aging population, General considerations for healthcare practitioners
Research (R) 0 – 1 Q4(27) Advancing Patient Care – The Role of Nursing Research in Evidence-Based Practice

Use activity E27(26) – Blood pressure management, and draw up a short questionnaire to investigate knowledge in your ward about the best practices for BP measurement

Use activity G2(27) – Drug-drug interactions in older community-dwelling individuals and conduct a short survey on patients 60+ and the number of medicines (prescription and OTC and natural) they in general report when admitted.