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Ethics Webinar: Withholding, Treating, Withdrawing and Palliating Patients

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EthiQal cordially invites you to an ethics webinar on Thursday, 16th April.

During this webinar, the HPCSA Booklet 7: Guidelines for the Withholding and Withdrawing of Treatment and HPCSA Booklet 17: Ethical Guidelines on Palliative Care will be explored from a South African legal and ethical practice perspective. The webinar will offer insights into the complexities of withholding, treating, withdrawing and palliating patients while focusing on offering ethical and compassionate care and support to both patients and their loved ones.

The audience will have an opportunity to listen and engage with clinical, legal and medical malpractice insurance subject matter experts. During the webinar, a range of learning opportunities will be offered, including short lectures, interactive case studies with a series of multiple choice questions, panel discussions, and audience Q&A.

Date: Thursday 16th April 2026

Time: 18h00 – 19h45

2 CPD Ethics Points

Speakers

Dr Shetil Nana

Dr Shetil Nana is a Paediatrician and Paediatric Critical Care Consultant with experience across the South African state and private healthcare sectors. Currently based at Mowbray Maternity Hospital, she works as a sessional consultant in the neonatal intensive care unit – where her clinical expertise is matched by a deep commitment to patient-centred advocacy.

Dr Hlombe Makuluma

Hlombe is a general medical practitioner with a Masters in Medical Law and Ethics. He is currently a PhD Candidate in Medical Law with the University of Pretoria.

Assoc Prof Zainab Mohamed

Associate Professor Zainab Mohamed is a Clinical and Radiation Oncologist in the Department of Radiation Oncology, Groote Schuur Hospital, and the University of Cape Town. She is the head of the clinical unit, runs the Lymphoma, Kaposi’s sarcoma and Thyroid cancer clinics and provides radiotherapy services to Clinical Haematology.

Dr Luyanda Mtukushe

Luyanda is a practicing advocate and a member of the Johannesburg Society of Advocates. He has 10 years’ experience as an Advocate and his areas of practice being medical related litigation, and general commercial litigation.

Amy Wolfe

Amy is a healthcare continuing professional development (CPD) professional with more than 15 years’ experience of building, delivering and evaluation programmes for South African healthcare professionals.

This webinar will focus on specialist practices. Administrative staff working in these practices are welcome to join the discussion.

Register here: https://webinar.ethiqal.co.za/

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Join EthiQal for an Ethics Webinar: HPCSA Booklet #9: Ethical Record Keeping in the Digital Age

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Ethical patient record keeping is essential to modern healthcare, ensuring safe, effective, and trustworthy care. Accurate documentation supports continuity, clinical decision-making, and legal accountability, while also carrying ethical importance by safeguarding sensitive information with honesty, confidentiality, and respect. Poor record keeping can decrease patient outcomes, create confusion, impact multidisciplinary collaboration, and create legal risk.

Managing records ethically protects patient privacy and autonomy while allowing patients access and control over their health data. With the growth of digital health technologies, new challenges such as data security, electronic informed consent, and cybersecurity have emerged. Breaches or cyberattacks can erode trust, discourage information sharing, and disrupt care delivery, highlighting the need to balance accessibility with strong safeguards.

 Join our expert speaker panel to explore how you can effectively manage your patient records to ensure integrity and continue to build trust vital to patient-centred healthcare. 

During this webinar, attendees will review the HPCSA Booklet 9: Guidelines on the keeping of patient health records where the pertinent South Africa laws and basic principles around ethical practices for maintaining patient health records are laid out. The webinar will offer insights into both paper and electronic record-based practices.

The audience will have an opportunity to engage with faculty who offer insights from a clinical, legal, medical malpractice insurance, cybersecurity, and medical practice setup and management perspective through short lectures, interactive case studies, a series of multiple choices questions and Q&A sessions.

This webinar will focus on specialist practices. Administrative staff working in these practices are welcome to join the discussion.

Seats are limited.

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Earn CPD Points with EthiQal’s Webinar on Record Keeping

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On Wednesday 5 June at 18:00, EthiQal cordially invites you to attend their ethics webinar, “Documenting care: Effective record-keeping and requests for records”.

Hosted by Dr Hlombe Makuluma, Medicolegal Advisor at EthiQal, this webinar will be co-presented by two admitted attorneys, Mashooma Parker and Jessica Viljoen, who are both legal advisors within the claims team at EthiQal. The 90-minute session will cover compliance for record-keeping requirements as well as dealing with requests for patient records from patients and third parties.

Participants will gain valuable insights to ethically enhance their practice’s visibility and reach, fostering responsible and compliant advertising practices.

Mashooma Parker is a skilled Legal Advisor within the Claims & Legal team at EthiQal, specialising in medical malpractice. With a strong background in the legal field and a passion for assisting healthcare practitioners, Mashooma brings a wealth of expertise to navigate the complexities that arise with patients and third parties. Hosting the first topic, She will cover the requirements for healthcare practitioners to ensure quality record-keeping compliance with Booklet 9 of the HPCSA’s Ethical Guidelines.

Jessica Viljoen is an admitted attorney and legal advisor specialising in professional indemnity insurance for healthcare practitioners, and medical malpractice law. With her extensive experience within the medico-legal space, including her years of litigation experience, Jessica leverages her industry knowledge to provide legal advice and assistance to all specialties of medical practitioners throughout South Africa. She will present the second part of the talk, which will deal with Patient and Third-party requests for patient records and how to ensure compliance with the Promotion of Access to Information Act 2 of 2000.

The speakers will offer some useful tips from a medico-legal risk management perspective for health practitioners to be cognisant of, as well as to work through some practical examples to illustrate the importance of the topic.

At least one hour’s attendance on the Zoom Platform is required to earn CPD points, and for those unable to watch it live, a recording will be made available.

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