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Guidelines for Good Practice
professional stationery
(1) A practitioner shall print or have printed on letterheads, account forms and
electronic stationery information pertaining only to such practitioner’s –
(a) name;
(b) profession;
(c) registered category;
(d) speciality or subspeciality or field of professional practice (if any);
(e) registered qualifications or other academic qualifications or honorary
degrees in abbreviated form;
(f) registration number;
(g) addresses (including email address);
(h) telephone and fax numbers;
(i) practice or consultation hours;
(j) practice code number; and
(k) dispensing licence number (if any).
(2) A group of practitioners practising as a juristic person which is exempted from
registration in terms of section 54A of the Act or a group of practitioners
practising in partnership, shall print or have printed on letterheads, account
forms and electronic stationery information pertaining only to such juristic
person or partnership practitioners’ -
(a) name;
(b) profession;
(c) registered category;
(d) speciality or subspeciality or field of professional practice (if any);
(e) registered qualifications or other academic qualifications or honorary
degrees in abbreviated form;
(f) registration number;
(g) addresses (including email address);
(h) telephone and fax numbers;
(i) business hours;
(j) practice code number;
(k) exemption from registration in terms of section 54A of the Act; and
(l) dispensing licence number (if any).
(3) A practitioner shall not use prescription forms or envelopes on which the name
or address of a pharmacist is printed
Multiple Registrations
Practitioners registered in multiple professions must:
Avoid conflicts of interest.
Inform patients of their role during consultations.
Adhere to ethical rules for the specific profession
Main Responsibilities
Practitioners must:
Act in patients' best interests and respect their confidentiality, dignity, and choices.
Provide clear information about diagnoses, treatments, costs, and alternatives.
Maintain up-to-date knowledge and skills.
Obtain informed consent except in emergencies.
Keep accurate patient records.
Definitions
Canvassing: Prohibited conduct that involves promoting personal qualities or services through various media.
Independent Practice: Conducted by a registered practitioner without supervision.
Private Practice: Practicing independently or in partnership.
Itinerant Practice: Recurring practice at another location, offering the same level of service and fees as in the practitioner's resident area.
Public Service: Services provided by the state or subsidized organizations.
Rooms: Physical structures for private practice, ensuring patient confidentiality and record safety. practitioner shall not share his or her rooms with a person or entity not registered in
terms of the Act.
Touting: Prohibited conduct that involves promoting non-professional benefits to attract patients.
A practitioner shall be allowed to advertise his or her services or permit,
sanction or acquiesce to such advertisement: Provided that the advertisement
is not unprofessional, untruthful, deceptive or misleading or causes
consumers unwarranted anxiety that they may be suffering from any health
condition.
(2) A practitioner shall not canvass or tout or allow canvassing or touting to be
done for patients on his or her behalf.
Naming a Practice
1) A practitioner shall use his or her own name or the name of a registered
practitioner or practitioners with whom he or she is in partnership or with
whom he or she practises as a juristic person, as a name for his or her private
practice.
(2) A practitioner referred to in subrule (1) may retain the name of such private
practice even if another practitioner, partner of such partnership or member of
such juristic person is no longer part of such private practice: Provided that the
express consent of the past practitioner or, in the case of a deceased
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practitioner the consent of the executor of his or her estate or his or her nextof-
kin, has been obtained.
(3) A practitioner shall not use, in the name of his or her private practice, the
expression “hospital”, “clinic” or “institute” or any other expression which may
give the impression that such private practice forms part of, or is in association
with, a hospital, clinic or institute.
Main Responsibilities
Practitioners must:
Act in patients' best interests and respect their confidentiality, dignity, and choices.
Provide clear information about diagnoses, treatments, costs, and alternatives.
Maintain up-to-date knowledge and skills.
Obtain informed consent except in emergencies.
Keep accurate patient records.
Professional Board for Physio, Podiatry, and Biokinetrics. Rules of conduct pertaining specifically to the profession of Physio, Pod, Bio
biokineticist and student in biokinetics shall adhere to the following rules of
conduct in addition to the rules of conduct referred to in rules 2 to 27. Failure by such
physiotherapist, physiotherapy assistant, student in physiotherapy, podiatrist, student in
podiatry, biokineticist and student in biokinetics to comply with the rules of conduct listed
herein shall constitute an act or omission in respect of which the board may take
disciplinary steps in terms of Chapter IV of the Act. Performance of professional acts by biokineticist
A biokineticist –
(a) shall confine himself or herself to functional and clinical diagnoses, and
practising in the field of biokinetics in which he or she was educated and
trained and in which he or she has gained experience, regard being had to
both the extent and the limits of his or her professional expertise;
(b) shall not fail to communicate and cooperate, where appropriate, with medical
practitioners and other practitioners in the diagnosis and treatment of a
patient; and
(c) shall refer a patient to a practitioner when the patient's problems and needs
are beyond the scope of biokinetics.
Performance of professional acts by student in biokinetics
A student in biokinetics –
(a) shall perform professional acts pertaining to biokinetics only under the
supervision of a biokineticist or a medical practitioner; and
(b) shall limit the acts referred to in paragraph (a) to acts directly related to his or
her education and training in biokinetics.
PROFESSIONAL BOARD FOR PHYSIOTHERAPY, PODIATRY AND BIOKINETICS
RULES OF CONDUCT PERTAINING SPECIFICALLY TO THE PROFESSION OF
PHYSIOTHERAPY, PODIATRY AND BIOKINETICS
PROFESSIONAL BOARD FOR PHYSIOTHERAPY, PODIATRY AND BIOKINETICS
RULES OF CONDUCT PERTAINING SPECIFICALLY TO THE PROFESSION OF
PHYSIOTHERAPY, PODIATRY AND BIOKINETICS