Dr van Soest is an obstetrician and gynaecologist at Life Anncron Hospital in Wilkoppies, Klerksdorp. One thing to know before you search for him on a register or a claim form: Life Healthcare lists him simply as Dr Jan van Soest, while his full registered name is Zwiert Jan Willem Evert van Soest. Medical scheme and HPCSA records use the longer form, which is why searches under “Jan van Soest” sometimes return nothing.
Official contact channels
- Rooms: 018 468 2213, published by Life Healthcare as +27 18 468 2213.
- Life Healthcare hotline: 011 219 9000 – a national group line, not a route to the rooms.
- No email address is published. Life Healthcare doctor entries carry a telephone number and address only.
Because no mailbox is published, treat any email address for this practice found on a directory site as unverified.
What this organisation provides
- Obstetrics and gynaecology – pregnancy care and delivery, and the medical and surgical treatment of gynaecological conditions.
- Practises at Life Anncron Hospital, which is where deliveries and surgery take place.
- Klerksdorp is the referral centre for a wide rural catchment across the North West goldfields, so this is a practice that draws patients from well beyond the town – Orkney, Stilfontein, Hartbeesfontein and further.
If you are booking maternity care from out of town, settle the travel question at the booking visit: how far you are from Klerksdorp in early labour determines whether the plan is to come in early or to be assessed locally first.
Address and operating information
- Life Anncron Hospital, corner Dr Yusuf Dadoo Avenue and Hartley Street, Wilkoppies, Klerksdorp, 2570
- Wilkoppies is the Klerksdorp suburb where the private hospital and most specialist rooms are clustered.
- Consulting hours are not published. Obstetricians are called away to deliveries, so appointments run late more often than in other specialities.
- Life Healthcare does not publish HPCSA registration numbers in its directory. To confirm a practitioner is registered and in good standing, contact the Health Professions Council on 012 389 9300 – and use the full name form given above when you do.
Support and escalation routes
- In labour, bleeding in pregnancy or with waters broken, go to the Life Anncron maternity unit, not to the consulting rooms.
- Confirm the delivery hospital and the maternity benefit in writing before the third trimester. A private birth produces separate accounts from the obstetrician, the hospital, the paediatrician and often an anaesthetist.
- Complaints about professional conduct or standard of care go to the Health Professions Council of South Africa on 012 389 9300. Complaints about the hospital go to Life Anncron and then to Life Healthcare on the group hotline; scheme disputes go to the Council for Medical Schemes.
Sources
- Life Healthcare doctor directory profile for Dr Jan van Soest, lifehealthcare.co.za, read 5 September 2026 – speciality, rooms telephone number, hospital address, practising hospital and the group hotline.
- Medpages and Medical Network listings recording the full registered name Zwiert Jan Willem Evert van Soest.
- HPCSA published switchboard number, hpcsa.co.za.
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