The draft seeks to amend the 2023 rules governing registration and licensing of docs. (Representational picture)
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The Nationwide Medical Fee (NMC) has proposed a registration system below which a medical practitioner, as soon as registered with a State Medical Council and allotted a Distinctive Identification (UID) quantity within the Nationwide Medical Register, can be eligible to practise throughout India with out acquiring recent registration or a licence in one other State.
The proposal is a part of the draft Registration of Medical Practitioners and Licence to Observe Medication (Modification) Rules, 2026, notified by the NMC on August 11, 2026. The draft seeks to amend the 2023 rules governing registration and licensing of docs. The NMC has invited objections and strategies for 30 days from the date of notification.
Below the proposed system, registration and licensing can be routed by way of a unified registration portal of the NMC’s Ethics and Medical Registration Board. The State Medical Council would proceed to scrutinise purposes and grant registration and the licence to practise, however the approval would concurrently be mirrored in each the State Medical Register and the Nationwide Medical Register.
The UID assigned within the register would incorporate the State/Union Territory code and the practitioner’s State Medical Register quantity, the NMC stated. As soon as the State Medical Council grants registration and the Ethics and Medical Registration Board allots the UID, the physician wouldn’t require recent registration or a separate licence to practise in one other State or Union Territory.
The draft additionally proposes computerized digital synchronisation between the nationwide and State registers so {that a} change made in a single register is mirrored within the different. The Nationwide Medical Register would function a central repository of registration particulars in addition to disciplinary proceedings, together with suspension, removing, and restoration of registration.
The NMR would additionally carry data on whether or not a health care provider’s license is energetic or inactive, and particulars of disciplinary motion, if any. The Ethics and Medical Registration Board and the NMC would have powers to hunt data and monitor State Medical Councils to advertise uniformity and transparency in regulation.
The proposal retains the five-year validity of a license. If a health care provider doesn’t apply for license renewal inside three months of expiry, the registration can be marked inactive, and the practitioner won’t be entitled to practise medication. The inactive standing would routinely be mirrored within the NMR.
Whereas in search of to create a nationwide registration framework, the draft leaves disciplinary jurisdiction primarily with the State Medical Council in whose territorial jurisdiction the alleged skilled misconduct, unethical conduct or medical negligence occurred.
The involved State Medical Council would have the facility to inquire into and determine the matter, and document the end result towards the practitioner’s credentials within the on-line register. The place disciplinary motion is advisable by a State Council apart from the physician’s main registering council, the motion can be mirrored within the NMR and routinely up to date within the State register of the council of main registration.
The draft additionally gives for an attraction mechanism. If a State Medical Council rejects an utility for registration, license or renewal, the applicant can attraction to the Ethics and Medical Registration Board inside 30 days. The Board would have 30 days to determine the attraction, and if it permits the attraction, its order directing the State Council to grant registration or a license can be binding on the council.
The proposed amendments additionally revise provisions regarding overseas medical graduates. Their definition would come with Indian residents and Abroad Residents of India who get hold of a overseas medical qualification in fashionable/allopathic medication however don’t maintain an undergraduate medical diploma from an Indian establishment. The Overseas Medical Graduate Examination graduates who meet the prescribed situations would stay eligible for provisional registration for internship and registration within the Nationwide Medical Register.
The draft additionally proposes extending non permanent registration for overseas nationals enterprise postgraduate or super-speciality programs from a most of 12 months to the length of the course, topic to a most of 24 months, adopted by a one-year cooling-off interval.
Moreover, present practitioners who should not have a Nationwide Medical Register UID must replace their particulars on the Ethics and Medical Registration Board portal inside a interval to be specified by the Board and procure the UID as a one-time measure. No payment can be charged for this train.
The draft notification has not but to return into power.
Revealed – August 19, 2026 05:17 pm IST
