The law is clear on when you can call yourself a specialist. It's not about being highly experienced or working only in a specialises field, writes Yash Naidoo, dispute...
April 3rd, 2019
In another victory for cardiologist Dr Wouter Basson, head of the apartheid government’s chemical and biological warfare project and dubbed Dr Death by the media,...
April 3rd, 2019An application against the medical doctor owner of a KwaZulu-Natal hospital and seven others, as well as against the Health Professions Council of SA, for the doctor's...
The Health Professions Council of South Africa (HPCSA) has announced that a bogus doctor was arrested in Nigel in Gauteng following a tip-off, reports The Citizen. HPCSA...Medico-Legal
The Radiological Society of South Africa has asked the Gauteng High Court in Pretoria, to halt a decision that diagnostic radiographers registered after 1 January, 1994,...
February 13th, 2019
Dr Jurgen Odendaal, a Pretoria East general practitioner, whose SMS messages to a patient warning of a cerebral malaria diagnosis were sent to a no-longer operable...
The Health Professions Council of South Africa (HPCSA) says that employees and unions have been consulted about the restructuring and they were assured the changes would...South Africa
Half of the doctors and nurses responsible for the Life Esidimeni tragedy still have not been reported to their professional associations, Bhekisisa reports.
The...Weekly Roundup
Countering a wide range of allegations of corruption levelled at it by a whistle-blower, the Health Professions Council of South Africa (HPCSA) said action was being...
August 1st, 2018'I have never advised patients to consider delaying chemo or radiation in favour of a ketogenic diet', writes Marika Sboros, responding to Alastair McAlpine's Digital...
