16 questions
Regulatory Scope of the HCSA
How does HealthierSG affect non-premises-based licensed services under HCSA such as telemedicine and mobile medicine providers? Can all Singaporeans be enrolled in such services?
How can patients verify that a provider has been licensed to provide a particular healthcare service?
How is “healthcare service” defined? What is the rationale for this definition?
How will the HCSA interact with other professional Acts that currently govern the different categories of healthcare professionals, e.g., Medical Registration Act?
Will the HCSA be able to take an errant healthcare service provider located overseas treating a local patient to task?
Why are concierge services, such as managed care organisations (MCOs) or third party administrators (TPAs), not regulated?
Will community care entities e.g., Adult Disability Homes, Shelters, Boys’ Home, and Girls’ Home, Assisted Living Facilities (ALFs), Senior Care Centres (SCCs), Senior Activity Centres and Social Day Care Centres need to be licensed under HCSA?
Why are Government entities e.g., SCDF ambulances, SAF clinics excluded from the scope of the HCSA? How do we ensure the safety of care in these settings/services?
As Intense Pulsed Light (IPL) is not on the list of aesthetic procedures restricted to only medical and dental practitioners, can this procedure be performed by non-healthcare professionals?
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