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Prescription format for doctors in India. Make your pad, print on A4 or A5.
Free prescription pad maker for Indian doctors. Letterhead with registration number, generic-name medicine table, A4 or A5, print or save as PDF. Nothing is uploaded.
Clinic
Logo
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Doctor
Layout
Everything you type stays in this browser. Nothing is uploaded to Vitels. In the print window choose “Save as PDF” for a file.
Clinic name
Dr. Name
- Patient name
- Age / Sex
- Date
Generic names in capital letters. Dose, frequency, duration and instructions for each medicine.
Preview at reduced size. Prints at full A4.
What the rules say
What a prescription in India must carry
From the Indian Medical Council (Professional Conduct, Etiquette and Ethics) Regulations, 2002, as amended, which still govern registered medical practitioners.
Registration number on every prescription
Every physician shall display the registration number accorded by the State Medical Council or the Medical Council of India in the clinic and in all prescriptions, certificates and money receipts given to patients.
2002 Regulations, clause 1.4.1
Only recognised degrees after your name
Physicians shall display as suffix to their names only recognised medical degrees, or certificates, diplomas, memberships and honours that confer professional knowledge or recognise an exemplary qualification.
2002 Regulations, clause 1.4.2
Generic names, legibly, preferably in capitals
Every physician should prescribe drugs with generic names, legibly and preferably in capital letters, and shall ensure that there is a rational prescription and use of drugs. This wording replaced the original clause in 2016.
Clause 1.5, as substituted by the Gazette notification of 8 October 2016
The 2023 NMC regulations are on hold
The National Medical Commission's Registered Medical Practitioner (Professional Conduct) Regulations, 2023 were held in abeyance in August 2023. Until a fresh Gazette notification, the 2002 regulations continue to apply.
NMC public notice, August 2023
Legibility is being watched
In December 2025 the NMC asked medical colleges to set up committees under their drugs and therapeutics committees to review prescriptions for legibility and generic names, following a Punjab and Haryana High Court order.
NMC direction to medical colleges, December 2025
No layout is prescribed
Neither the 2002 regulations nor the 2016 amendment fixes a template, a paper size or a font. They fix the contents. Beyond those, the layout is yours, and the usual elements below are convention rather than law.
What the regulations do not say
What a complete prescription carries
The first three items are required by regulation. The rest are what pharmacists and patients need to act on the paper without calling the clinic.
- Doctor's registration number, with the council that issued it
- Doctor's name with recognised qualifications only
- Each medicine by generic name, legibly, preferably in capital letters
- Clinic name, address and phone number
- Date of the prescription
- Patient's name, age and sex
- Strength and dosage form of each medicine (tablet, capsule, syrup)
- Dose and frequency, written so a pharmacist cannot misread it
- Duration and total quantity
- Instructions: before or after food, timing, anything to avoid
- Advice and the follow-up date
- Doctor's signature
Writing this thirty times a day?
Vitels types the prescription from a keyboard-first pad, keeps every version with the patient, repeats the last visit in three steps and prints on this same letterhead. Works offline. No licence fee.
Questions
Straight answers
01Is there an official prescription format in India?
No single template. The Indian Medical Council (Professional Conduct, Etiquette and Ethics) Regulations, 2002 fix what must appear: the registration number (clause 1.4.1), only recognised qualifications after the name (1.4.2), and generic names written legibly, preferably in capitals (1.5, as amended in 2016). Paper size, columns and fonts are not prescribed.
02Is the registration number compulsory on a prescription?
Yes. Clause 1.4.1 requires every physician to display the registration number in the clinic and on all prescriptions, certificates and money receipts given to patients. This tool prints it under the doctor's name and again beside the signature.
03Do I have to write generic names in capital letters?
Clause 1.5, as substituted in October 2016, says every physician should prescribe drugs with generic names, legibly and preferably in capital letters. The sample pad on this page shows the convention: generic name and strength in capitals, with the dosage form in front.
04A4 or A5?
Both are common. A5 suits short prescriptions and saves paper; A4 suits long prescriptions, multiple doctors on one letterhead, or clinics that also print reports on the same sheet. Choose the size here and the page prints at exactly that size.
05Does the tool store my details or my logo?
Only in this browser, so they are there when you return. Nothing is sent to Vitels. Use Clear to remove everything. The logo is scaled down before it is kept.
06Can I use the same letterhead for other documents?
Yes. The medical certificate and fitness certificate makers on this site use the same letterhead details, so you enter them once.
07Why is this free?
Vitels is clinic software that prints prescriptions on exactly this kind of letterhead. If you write by hand, the pad maker gives you the pad. If you write thirty prescriptions a day, the product types them, keeps the history and prints on the same letterhead. Either way the letterhead is yours.
This page summarises the Indian Medical Council (Professional Conduct, Etiquette and Ethics) Regulations, 2002 as amended in 2016. It is general information for registered practitioners, not legal advice. State medical councils may issue further directions; check yours.
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