On 26 March 2020 – the eve of the 21 day nationwide lockdown in South Africa – the Health Professions Council of South Africa (HPCSA) issued a guidance note regarding the practice of telemedicine. The guidance note supplements and amends the HPCSA’s existing guidelines for the practice of telemedicine (booklet 10) as follows: The term ‘telemedicine’ is replaced with ‘telehealth’, which incorporates telemedicine, telepsychology, telepsychiatry , telerehabilitation, ‘etc’. The list of disciplines in the guidance… Continue Reading