Many chronic diseases are prescribed for more than 30 days.

Extending the outpatient prescription period to a maximum of 90 days for certain diseases and groups of diseases is expected to bring significant benefits to patients and medical facilities.

A representative of K Hospital ( Ministry of Health ) said that the hospital has implemented Circular 26/2025 of the Ministry of Health regulating prescriptions and the prescription of pharmaceutical and biological drugs in outpatient treatment at medical examination and treatment facilities. Accordingly, outpatient cancer patients are prescribed and given medicine for 90 days, instead of only 30 days as before July 1, 2025.

The list of diseases prescribed for outpatients over 30 days includes many common chronic diseases such as high blood pressure and diabetes.

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According to K Hospital, Circular 26/2025 creates a stricter legal corridor, contributing to standardizing the prescription process, enhancing the responsibility of medical practitioners and protecting the rights of patients; improving the quality of treatment, helping patients access accurate treatment regimens, minimizing drug abuse and misuse.

The new regulation also helps ensure that patients are fully informed about drugs and treatment; making it more convenient for patients to come for medical examination and treatment, and receive medication for treatment, especially for outpatient cancer patients living in remote provinces.

Regarding some new points of Circular 26/2025, the Ministry of Health said that it has stipulated 252 diseases and groups of diseases that can be prescribed for outpatients for more than 30 days, starting from July 1, 2025 (previously, outpatients could only be prescribed for a maximum of 30 days). In this list, there are many common chronic diseases: diabetes; high blood pressure, cardiovascular disease; respiratory and digestive diseases... The prescriber decides the number of days of use of each drug in the prescription based on the patient's condition and stability to prescribe the drug with the maximum number of days of use of each drug not exceeding 90 days.

Circular 26/2025 also adds a number of mandatory information fields in the prescription such as: recording information about the patient's personal identification number, citizen identification number or passport number; Vietnamese citizens providing personal identification numbers do not need to declare information about gender, date of birth, permanent address. The prescriber must clearly state the amount of medicine used each time and the number of times used per day, the number of days of use of the medicine in the prescription for the patient.

In the case of a patient visiting multiple specialists in one visit, the hospital will decide who will prescribe the medicine, ensuring that the patient only has one prescription, ensuring safety (no duplication, no drug interactions) and the effectiveness and reasonableness of the prescription. The prescription must be consistent with the patient's diagnosis and condition...

Source: https://thanhnien.vn/nhieu-benh-man-tinh-duoc-ke-don-thuoc-tren-30-ngay-185250703174146706.htm