01 / Legal · South Africa
HPCSA
The Health Professions Council of South Africa, which regulates practitioners.
02 / Definition
What is HPCSA?
The HPCSA is the Health Professions Council of South Africa, the statutory body that registers and regulates healthcare practitioners such as doctors. It sets professional and ethical standards, including how practitioners prescribe. In the cannabis context, a practitioner issuing a prescription must be HPCSA-registered, working alongside SAHPRA’s regulation of the products themselves.
03 / Related terms
See also
Prescription (Rx)
A practitioner’s written authorisation to supply a scheduled medicine.
SAHPRA
The South African Health Products Regulatory Authority.
Section 21
SAHPRA’s authorisation pathway to access unregistered medicines.
Medical cannabis
Cannabis accessed through a regulated, prescription-based clinical pathway.