Owners of healthcare practices have six months to register with the Health Professions Council of SA, it said on Monday.
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Owners of healthcare practices have six months to register with the Health Professions Council of SA, it said on Monday.
Spokeswoman Lize Nel said if they failed to do so, their practice numbers would be deregistered with the Board of Healthcare Funders.
She said the Health Professions Act determined that only registered healthcare practitioners could serve as directors, shareholders, partners, or associates in corporate entities.
“As a result, any corporate structure that includes unregistered professionals is non-compliant and these structures have to unbundle their entities in order to comply with the act and applicable regulations and policy guidelines.”
Healthcare practices had until February 2013 to comply. - Sapa