Rajesh Gupta
Jammu, Jan 3: The J&K Medical Council has directed doctors to include all their details on prescriptions, OPD records, and other patient documents & Doctors are also now required to use QR codes to enable patients to verify their credentials.
As per the directives issued by JKMC, doctors working in Government healthcare facilities must include their signature, name, designation, registration number issued by JKMC, along with the date and time, on all relevant documents such as OPD prescriptions, clinical notes, patient case records, investigation reports, and medical certificates.
Further, JKMC has mandated that registered doctors include QR codes from their permanent registration certificates on prescription pads to allow patients to verify their credentials.
The Directorate of Health Services, Kashmir, as per the protocol, has been tasked with ensuring compliance with these directives.
The JKMC also emphasized that practitioners may only practice specialties for which they are qualified and registered & it is the council’s responsibility to ensure patients are treated by qualified, registered doctors and to curb unethical practices that violate patients’ rights and tarnish the reputation of medical professionalism.
All registered doctors, whether in Government or private sectors, have been instructed to include their JKMC registration number on all prescriptions, certificates, and other documents. Private sector doctors, including those in nursing homes, clinics, and hospitals, have been directed to display their name, qualifications, and registration number on prescriptions, certificates, and receipts provided to patients.
JKMC has already barred hospitals from allowing unregistered doctors to operate and mandated that visiting doctors register with the council before consulting patients in J&K.
It was added that if a doctor fails to display their JKMC registration number on their clinic, prescriptions, or certificates, or violates regulation 1.4.2 of the Indian Medical Council (Professional Conduct, Etiquette, and Ethics) Regulations, 2002, it will constitute professional misconduct, rendering them liable for disciplinary action.
Above all it is the need of the day to act on Pvt Hospitals & Nursing Home for not displaying rate lists of various treatments/room charges approved by any authority & without ICU , which is mandatory as per the Medical Act & Laws & thereafter act on so called inspection committee on renewal of their license without such shortfalls along with no parking & other related issues.
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