{"id":576074,"date":"2025-11-17T11:52:31","date_gmt":"2025-11-17T11:52:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/576074\/"},"modified":"2025-11-17T11:52:31","modified_gmt":"2025-11-17T11:52:31","slug":"no-more-scribbles-slmc-demands-clear-prescriptions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/576074\/","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":576075,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4315],"tags":[52157,136495,105,4326,20996,19773,1939,182663,182664,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-576074","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-no","14":"tag-prescriptions","15":"tag-scribbles","16":"tag-slmc","17":"tag-uk","18":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115564900870504714","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/576074","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=576074"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/576074\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/576075"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=576074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=576074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=576074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}