Archive · 16 Dec 2025
NMC Orders Medical Colleges to Monitor Prescriptions
The National Medical Commission (NMC) has told medical colleges to make a special team to check prescriptions.
This team will make sure that doctors write prescriptions clearly and neatly, using simple medicine names.
The NMC wants this because a court said that clear prescriptions are important for people's health rights.
The team will look at prescriptions, find any mistakes, and suggest fixes.
All medical colleges must make this team right away.
NMC directed medical colleges to form a sub-committee to monitor prescription practices.
The sub-committee will ensure prescriptions are legible, clear, and use generic names.
The directive follows a Punjab and Haryana High Court order linking legible prescriptions to the Right to Health.
The sub-committee will review prescriptions, identify deviations, and recommend corrective measures.
Medical colleges must implement the monitoring mechanism immediately.
- Who
- National Medical Commission (NMC)
- What
- Directed medical colleges to form a sub-committee to monitor prescription practices and ensure legible, clear handwriting
- When
- Communication issued on Monday, following a court order dated August 27
- Where
- Hyderabad, India
- Why
- To comply with statutory, regulatory, and ethical standards, and in response to a Punjab and Haryana High Court order
- Organization
- National Medical Commission (NMC)
- Court Order Date
- August 27
- Regulations Cited
- NMC Act, 2019; Indian Medical Council (Professional Conduct, Etiquette and Ethics) Regulations, 2002
- Prescription Requirements
- Legible, clear handwriting, preferably in capital letters, use of generic names
- Committee Responsibility
- Systematic appraisal of prescriptions, reviewing prescribing patterns, identifying deviations, recommending corrective measures