New: You can now listen to articles.SINGAPORE: The Ministry of Health is looking to tighten the rules over the issuance of medical certificates as telemedicine platforms come under the spotlight.
"MCs were issued when patients mentioned that they had just wanted a certification to skip work or school, but they were not sick," the circular read. The PocketCare website was also found to have featured claims that patients could “Get Your MC or Get a Refund”. According to the regulations, real-time, two-way interactive audio-visual communications like video consultations must be utilised when teleconsulting with new patients.
While noting that the issuance of MCs is a"clinical decision", the circular stressed it is"imperative" that the issuance of MCs adheres to the guidelines in SMC's ethics code, which state that MCs"must be issued to patients only on proper medical grounds arrived at through good clinical assessment” – regardless of the mode of the consultation.
Any licensees found advertising or allowing the practice that the issuance of MCs under their approved services could be “anonymised” will be in breach of this proposed requirement, the circular read.
Source: Healthcare Press (healthcarepress.net)
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