Welcome to Dr Anthony Yip’s Cardiology Practice website.
Dr Yip has been involved in cardiac care from 2004 where he served as a Fellow in Cardiology at the Baragwanath Hospital. He since established his private practice as a Consultant Cardiologist at Life Fourways Hospital in 2007 and is, to this day, engaged in cardiac care.
MEET OUR TEAM
DR ANTHONY YIP
CARDIOLOGIST
MBBCh (Wits) MSc (Medicine) (Wits) FCP (SA) MRCP (UK) Cert. Cardiology (SA) FRCP (Lond) FRCP(Edin) FESC
Dr Yip is a practicing cardiologist in Johannesburg with over 20 years experience in the medical field. His specialist experience is in interventional cardiology (coronary interventions), non-invasive cardiology and advanced echocardiography with interests in coronary interventions, cardiorenal syndromes, the athlete’s heart, cardiology in women, valvular heart disease and conditions of the aorta.
He has been a specialist physician since 2003, a fully registered cardiologist since 2006 and also obtained Membership of the Royal Colleges in the UK in November 2002.
Having graduated from the University of the Witwatersrand in 1997, Dr Yip held several posts in the public hospitals of Johannesburg where he served as a Registrar in General Medicine at the Johannesburg, Helen Joseph and Baragwanath Hospitals between 2000 to 2003. From there he was a Fellow in Cardiology at Chris Hani Baragwanath Hospital and Soweto South Africa until 2006. He served further as a Consultant Cardiologist at Chris Hani Baragwanath Hospital, Johannesburg and the University of the Witwatersrand Medical School from 2007 to 2013.
Dr Yip’s interests lie in the investigation of cardiac involvement in chronic kidney disease and has published a number of articles in both local and international medical journals in this area. In 2018, he was invited to serve on a working committee in Vienna by KDIGO (Kidney disease for international global outcomes) in drawing up their guidelines on the management of cardiac disease in renal failure.
He is an elected fellow of the Royal Colleges of Physicians of London and Edinburgh, and a fellow of the European Society of Cardiology.
QUEEN MOTSIE
RECEPTIONIST & ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT
Queen Motsie joined Dr Yip’s Practice in April 2017 with her warm enthusiasm and caring presence. Having worked at the UN for 18 months, Queen is no stranger to the office environment. Queen is our first port of call at the Practice and she looks forward to hearing from you if there is anything you need assistance with.
PHINDILE DLAMINI
CATHLAB NURSE
With over 20 years’ nursing experience in cardiology, Sister Phindi started her career at the Johannesburg General Hospital, and is now practicing in the Catheterisation Lab (Cathlab) at the Life Fourways Hospital.
Sister Phindi and Dr Yip have a close working relationship that spans over 16 years, having worked together since 2000 where Dr Yip was a trainee in Internal Medicine at the Charlotte Maxeke Johannesburg Academic Hospital (formerly Johannesburg General Hospital). Sister Phindi assists Dr Yip in all his procedures that he carries out in the Cathlab.
Sister Phindi studied at the Baragwanath Nursing College between 1990 and 1994, later specialising in cardiology.
When Patients Come to See Me What Can They Expect?
As no two patients are the same I typically set aside an allowance of between 30 minutes to an hour consultation to see you. Should you wish to make an appointment at the Practice please do make an allowance for this.
What Tests are Carried Out in the Rooms of the Practice?
As an out-patient, we may request to perform one or all of the following tests on you in the rooms:
What Procedures are Carried Out in the Hospital?
As an in-patient in the hospital it may be necessary for us to carry out one of the following procedures:
What rates are charged in the Practice and will my Medical Aid cover the services?
Just so that you know our practice is not contracted to any medical scheme. Various schemes reimburse for health services and goods at different levels, so the amounts payable by you may differ from scheme to scheme, or from one option/plan to another. We ask that you enquire first with your medical scheme as to how much of the costs of consultation they will pay.
A copy of our Billing Policy and 2024 Rates for Rooms and Terms and Conditions of the practice can be found by clicking on the links.
Further reading
Your health is of great importance to us and we endeavour to answer any questions you may have regarding your health in your consultation at the Practice.
In the meantime, we have listed a number of useful links with information that we feel will support you to understand your heart and heart care.
WebMD:
Medicinenet:
CONSULTING ROOMS
You can find us at the following address:
Suite C28 Life Fourways Hospital
Cnr Cedar Road & Cedar Avenue
Fourways 2191
Making An Appointment
Should you wish to make an appointment to see us please call us on the number below.
Tel: (011) 875 1760
Fax: (011) 875 1761
Patient Information
We’d like to ask all our patients to allow sufficient time to come to the practice. At present, the impact of loadshedding and road upgrades in and around the Life Fourways Hospital has been delaying our patients’ arrival for their consultation.
To all our new patients we also ask that you arrive 10 to 15 minutes ahead of your appointment so that we can add your details to our system. Please bring with you a copy of your ID and your medical aid details.
Alternately, to save time, you can download the necessary forms in the links below. We request that you read through all documents, complete (where applicable) and bring with you on the day of your appointment. We are available to answer your questions should you have any.
Download Forms:
Protection of Personal Information Act
As you may know the Protection of Personal Information (POPI) Act came into effect on 1 July 2021.
We, at Dr Yip Cardiology Practice, are committed to protecting your privacy and will ensure that your personal information is used appropriately, transparently, securely and according to applicable law. As a result, we have updated our Privacy Statements as well as our Terms and Conditions.
We encourage you to read these documents as they are designed to help you understand how we process and protect your personal information.
Opening Hours
Mon – Fri: 8am to 5pm
Location
Should you wish to contact us for more information please send us a message below. Please note that this practice does not provide any healthcare advice or services by means of the query portal.
For all appointment bookings, please call (011) 875 1760.
If you have an urgent health query, please call us at (011) 875 1760, or visit your nearest emergency room.
For accounts queries, please contact Leann Britz on (012) 344 1370.
TERMS AND CONDITIONS
We request that all our patients download and read through the Practice Terms and Conditions. Once you have read it in full please sign and return to us on the day of your appointment.
In brief, it outlines the following:
We also have a Compliments and Complaints policy to provide a mechanism for patients and others with whom the practice interact to communicate positive, and negative, matters to the Practice. This policy makes sure that we do what we do well, even better, and to address any concerns or complaints in an efficient and consistent manner, which you can submit directly to us or send by email.
Should you have any queries relating to any of the above please call or email us.
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