The former Gauteng Health Department deputy DG Dr Richard Lebethe says it would have been hard for officials to foresee that patients would pick up infections and...
September 8th, 2021An urgent application by foreign-qualified doctors ordering the Health Professions Council of SA to allow them to sit their Board examinations, has been granted...
The SA Medical Association will not support any medical practitioner facing charges of disinformation about COVID-19 vaccines in the aftermath of Cape Town heart surgeon...South Africa
Some doctors have warned their regulator, the SA Health Profession’s Council (HPCSA), against creating an “administrative nightmare” that could potentially delay...Letter
Dr Michael J Pravetz speculates that there is an Olympiad in which the bureaucrats of medical oversight boards of South Africa and Namibia compete for the laurel crown...Medico-Legal
Recent legal actions against practising medical professionals may deter new entrants and cause experienced practitioners to retire, which has dire consequences for...Medico-Legal
Parliament has remained silent on any form of temporary legal indemnity for healthcare professionals in South Africa as a result of deaths due to the coronavirus...
April 8th, 2020
The Medical Protection Society welcomes the Health Professions Council of SA’s updated guidelines on telemedicine, confirming MPS’s position that telemedicine...
The investigation into allegations of racial profiling against black and Indian private medical practitioners to be chaired by Advocate Tembeka Ngcukaitobi began on...
July 17th, 2019
The 'reorganisation' of the national Health Department, an 'embryo' unit to build capacity, and the 'backbone' of a national electronic patient record system that...
