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Verify a Prescription
This tool tells you whether a prescription was genuinely issued through GSHS. It is for anyone holding the document — the patient, a family member collecting on their behalf, or the pharmacist being asked to dispense it. You do not need to work at a GSHS hospital and you do not need an account.
How this works
Written for a pharmacist who has never used GSHS before.
Find the code
Every prescription printed from GSHS carries a prescription number and a ten-character verification code, usually near the bottom of the page alongside the hospital's name.
Enter it above
Type the code exactly as printed. It uses letters and numbers only, and is not case-sensitive. Spaces and dashes are ignored.
Read the result
A genuine code returns the prescription number, its status, the hospital that issued it and the date. If nothing matches, the code is not one GSHS issued — or it was mistyped.
Privacy by design
Verification never reveals the patient or the medicine. Check those details against the paper in front of you; GSHS only tells you whether the document itself is authentic.
If a code does not verify, it does not automatically mean the document is fraudulent — it may have been mistyped, or issued by a hospital that is not on GSHS. Contact the issuing hospital directly before dispensing. To protect patients, we deliberately give the same answer for a wrong code and an unknown one, and we limit how many codes can be checked from one place, so codes cannot be guessed.
Runs a pharmacy and want prescriptions from your local hospital to be verifiable? Tell us which hospital and we will approach them.
Issue verifiable prescriptions from your hospital
Hospitals on GSHS print a verification code on every prescription, so any pharmacy in the country can confirm it is genuine.