Qatar Council for Healthcare Practitioners Circular No. 18/2017
Changing QCHP Medical License Coding according to each Profession
From | Qatar Council for Healthcare Practitioners (QCHP) |
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Subject | Changing QCHP Medical License Coding according to each Profession |
Date | 24 August 2017 |
“Registration Department in Qatar Council for Healthcare Practitioners presents to you its compliments”.
In QCHP's pursuit to enhance the Registration/Licensing Electronic System's procedures to facilitate tracking and following up with all healthcare practitioners' medical licenses according to each profession, the Registration Department announces that the coding of medical licenses will be changed from only numerical system to an alpha-numerical one by adding a letter before the license number to distinguish each medical profession and to guarantee that there is no license number repetition in healthcare practitioners and even among different professions. The new coding will be as follow:
Permanent license (current/new):
Codes which will be prepended medical license numbers for each profession are as followed:
Physicians – “Pxxxx”
Dentists – “Dxxxx”
Allied Health Practitioners – “Axxxx”
Nurses – “Nxxxx”
Pharmacists – “PHxxxx”
Provisional license (current/ new):