{"id":136748,"date":"2025-11-15T18:29:14","date_gmt":"2025-11-15T18:29:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/136748\/"},"modified":"2025-11-15T18:29:14","modified_gmt":"2025-11-15T18:29:14","slug":"no-more-scribbles-slmc-demands-clear-prescriptions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/136748\/","title":{"rendered":"No More Scribbles! SLMC Demands Clear Prescriptions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>COLOMBO (News 1st); The Sri Lanka Medical Council (SLMC) has issued a strong reminder to all medical practitioners to strictly adhere to the official guidelines for writing and recommending prescriptions.<\/p>\n<p>The SLMC revealed that complaints have been received from pharmacists and the public regarding unclear and illegible prescriptions issued by certain doctors.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>According to the Council, this lack of clarity has made it difficult to identify the correct medication, posing a serious threat to patient safety.<\/p>\n<p>The SLMC emphasized that its Code of Professional Conduct includes detailed instructions on how prescriptions should be written and recommended.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Failure to comply with these guidelines, the Council warned, will result in disciplinary action against the practitioners concerned.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"COLOMBO (News 1st); The Sri Lanka Medical Council (SLMC) has issued a strong reminder to all medical practitioners&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":136749,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[3470,84587,134,524,130,111,139,7805,69,829,93389,93390],"class_list":{"0":"post-136748","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-medication","8":"tag-clear","9":"tag-demands","10":"tag-health","11":"tag-medication","12":"tag-more","13":"tag-new-zealand","14":"tag-newzealand","15":"tag-no","16":"tag-nz","17":"tag-prescriptions","18":"tag-scribbles","19":"tag-slmc"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136748","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=136748"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136748\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/136749"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=136748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=136748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}