The Health Professions Act Chapter 27:19 was established basically to safeguard and protect the public of Zimbabwe who need health services. AHPCZ is therefore there to ensure that this happens through regulating its practitioners by ensuring that they are fit to practise. Once a practitioner receives a registration certificate as per section 77, they are expected to perform within the minimum set standards so as to protect the public. Every year a practitioner should have a valid Practising Certificate.
An important mandate of AHPCZ is training. Any institution that trains or wishes to train a future AHPCZ Practitioner e.g. Radiographer or Psychologist must be accredited by AHPCZ. This is to say the courses pass through AHPCZ for approval to ensure that minimum standards are met so that the student practitioner is well equipped. Therefore only accredited qualifications are accepted by AHPCZ e.g. you cannot claim to be a Radiographer if you were trained in unaccredited qualification. Foreign qualifications have to be assessed.
As per law, a council may erase the name of all non compliant practitioners. This therefore means that the person is no longer a practitioner and should not at any point practice in any of the AHPCZ professions. Practising will be in violation of section 126
Allied Health Practitioners Council of Zimbabwe (AHPCZ or Council) is not an association. It is a regulatory body established in terms of the Health Professions Act (Chapter 27:19) to register and regulate Allied Health Practitioners. Its mandate is to assist in the promotion of health for the Zimbabwean population through regulating, controlling, supervising all matters affecting training, registration, practice and enforcing ethics and discipline amongst health practitioner
