Professional Advisory Boards

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Professional Advisory Boards
The Council regulates the health professions in the country in aspects pertaining to registration, education and training, professional conduct and ethical behaviour, ensuring continuing professional development, and fostering compliance with healthcare standards. Each profession that is in the law establishing the Council constitutes a professional advisory board for that profession. Professional boards are responsible for verification of professional credentials and advise the council on specific professional matters; Provide guidance for the approval of CPD providers in their professional specialities where applicable.

Our Professional Advisory Boards

The Professional Boards are co-ordinating bodies for all the allied healthcare practitioners registered with the Council. The respective advisory boards that are established for a specific profession, deal with any matters relating to a specific profession. These boards consist of members appointed by their fellow practitioners but can also be nominated on the basis of their expertise.

These are established to provide better guidance and control over the training, registration and practices of practitioners of health professions, and to provide for matters incidental thereto.

All of the Professionals Advisory Boards have at least one professional title that is protected by law. This means that anyone using the titles such as ‘physiotherapist’; ‘Nutritionist’; ‘Medical Laboratory Technologist’ must be registered with us.

It is a criminal offence for someone to claim that they are registered with us when they are not, or to use a protected title that they are not entitled to use (see Article 26 and 37). The Council shall prosecute people who commit these crimes.