Hundreds of healthcare practitioners attended a virtual conference hosted by CPC Qualicare this month to discuss important innovations across the healthcare sector.
The event was aimed at engagement between member doctors and invited guests from the medical field to support, collaborate and engage with each other on a variety of medical, surgical and ethical topics related to innovations and medical advancements over the past six to nine months.
“CPC Qualicare has five hundred and forty family practitioner members at over three-hundred sites in the Western Cape and up until March last year we would hold three face-to-face meetings annually, but with the advent of Covid we have had to take these meetings into a virtual environment,” says Dr Tony BeHRman, Chief Executive Officer and Spokesperson for CPC Qualicare. “We partnered with multinational healthcare organisations to make this a reality and were able to host two-hundred and forty of our members.”
BeHRman continues: “Our mission is to provide quality, affordable, equitable and non-discriminatory healthcare to the primary care patients of the Western Cape, by empowering their doctors with clinical, business and ethical knowledge, as well as up to date practice information and assistance.”
“While the conference considered an emphasis on Covid related info it also addressed other very important health advances and topics in order to achieve our learning standards for our member practitioners,” he explains.
He points out that one of the notable addresses was the talk that Professor Praneet Valodia conducted on: ‘Progress in tobacco harm reduction – an evidence based approach.’ “This presentation provided our members with literature to clarify the misinformation surrounding tobacco harm reduction, which is arguably one of the most debated topics world-wide,” he says.
“While all delegates agree that smoking cessation is the best option for smokers, they realise that many will not quit. This is why the evidence presented by Prof Valodia went a long way in educating practitioners about the benefits of innovations like heated tobacco to encourage the use of less dangerous alternatives for smokers who can’t or won’t quit,” BeHRman concludes.
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