If you use any AI in your practice, from a transcription helper to a screening questionnaire, your clients have a right to know about it. Booklet 20, the HPCSA’s guidance on AI in healthcare, expects you to tell them and to stay accountable for the decisions that follow (Health Professions Council of South Africa, 2025). The principle is clear enough. Writing the actual consent form, for every tool, in language a client will understand, is the part that quietly eats your afternoon.
We built the free AI consent tool to take that job off your desk. It runs in your browser, and it produces a consent form you can hand to a client along with a short governance record for your own file. You can open it here and try it out.
What Booklet 20 actually asks for
Booklet 20 sets out sensible principles. Be open about AI. Get informed consent. Keep a person, not an algorithm, accountable for care. What it does not give you is a template.
The South African Medical Association’s AI Task Team made the same observation in its 2026 review. It welcomed Booklet 20 as a starting point, then noted that principles on their own do not help a busy clinician on a Tuesday morning (Mahomed et al., 2026). Practitioners need practical instruments: consent wording they can rely on, and a clear way to judge how risky a given tool is. That gap is what this tool fills.
How it works
You answer a few short questions:
- What is the tool
- What does it do
- What client information does it touch, and
- Do you check its output before you act on it.
As you go, the tool works out whether the use is low, moderate or high risk, and tells you why in one plain sentence. It also sets out what to do at that level.
When you are ready, you enter your email and receive two PDFs.
- The first is a client consent form, ready to print and sign.
- The second is a governance record for your file: the tool, the data, the risk rating and the safeguards, kept in one place.
Why it is free
Getting AI governance right should not depend on the size of a practice’s budget. A World Health Organization forum reached a similar view in 2026: what makes AI safe in healthcare is the strength of the governance around it, not how clever the technology is (World Health Organization Regional Office for Europe, 2026). Helping you put that governance in place, from the first consent conversation onward, is a sensible place for us to start.
The documents are a solid draft, not legal advice, and they do not promise that you have met every POPIA or HPCSA requirement. Read them, adjust them to your practice, and apply your own judgement. That is how they are meant to be used.
Getting started
If AI is already part of how you work, spend five minutes with the tool and get your consent and governance in order. Open the AI Consent and Disclosure Generator to begin. For the background, read our guide to what the HPCSA guidelines mean for psychologists.
References
- Health Professions Council of South Africa. (2025). Ethical guidelines on the use of artificial intelligence in healthcare (Booklet 20). HPCSA. Retrieved from https://www.hpcsa-blogs.co.za/updated-ethical-guidelines/
- Mahomed, S., Ncube, M. V., Dhai, A., Janneker, W., & Nodikida, M. (2026). Ethical governance of artificial intelligence in healthcare: Critical reflections of the AI Task Team of the South African Medical Association on the Health Professions Council of South Africa guidelines on the ethical use of AI in healthcare (Booklet 20). South African Medical Journal, 116(5), e5072. https://doi.org/10.7196/SAMJ.2026.v116i5.5072
- World Health Organization Regional Office for Europe. (2026). Progress on AI in health should be determined by strength of governance, WHO forum urges. Retrieved from https://www.who.int/europe/news/item/01-09-2026-progress-on-ai-in-health-should-be-determined-by-strength-of-governance–who-forum-urges