Tan Yia Swam on Healthcare Services (Amendment) Bill
It is a challenge for doctors to self-govern and self-regulate sometimes as most doctors are too busy with providing clinical work, teaching, research and maintaining competencies, said NMP Tan Yia Swam. Speaking in Parliament on Monday (Mar 6), she said the medical school curriculum may perhaps need to further expand its law and ethics segment to emphasise the administrative components. She supports the expanded scope of the Healthcare Services Act to include complementary and alternative medicine. But she also asked that beauty and wellness services be included as well due to concerns over misleading claims. She urged the Government to remember not to be “prescriptive” in the implementation of the law but to guide healthcare workers with “kindness and patience”.
It is a challenge for doctors to self-govern and self-regulate sometimes as most doctors are too busy with providing clinical work, teaching, research and maintaining competencies, said NMP Tan Yia Swam. Speaking in Parliament on Monday (Mar 6), she said the medical school curriculum may perhaps need to further expand its law and ethics segment to emphasise the administrative components. She supports the expanded scope of the Healthcare Services Act to include complementary and alternative medicine. But she also asked that beauty and wellness services be included as well due to concerns over misleading claims. She urged the Government to remember not to be “prescriptive” in the implementation of the law but to guide healthcare workers with “kindness and patience”.
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