LETTER: Medical schemes not obliged to fund non-psychology services
Educational and industrial psychologists took it upon themselves to start treating medical conditions that did not fall within their scope and do not generally fall within the scope of educational or industrial psychology anywhere in the world. There are many professions that do not get funded by medical schemes if they provide services not considered medical in nature. Sport scientists are also not funded by medical schemes for their work. The current regulations do not "artificially differentiate between categories of psychologists" as suggested in the article. This separation is determined by the different training in the professional programmes from the first year of specialisation. In some cases, even from year-one in the undergraduate training programme. Despite the indications in the article, psychologists could never practise outside of their scope of training based on previous experience; they were always bound by scope regulations and were practising outside this area of t...
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