This petition aims to ascertain the consensus of the profession in establishing our own independent board on the HPCSA. For years we have approached the podiatry, biokinetics and physiotherapy board for drug prescription rights, recognition of advanced qualifications & protection of our scope in South Africa to no avail.
We are a doctoring profession, for which we have trained for five long years to be able to practice as independent practitioners.
I strongly feel the only way forward to have the challenges this profession faces addressed is to have our own representative board on the HPCSA which solely deals with our issues and grievances.
Its about time ! The current structure is retarding professional growth and development of the field as a science