The Haryana Health Department has made a Healthcare Professional Registry (HPR) ID mandatory for doctors, dentists, AYUSH practitioners, nurses, pharmacists and other eligible healthcare professionals in the state. Under a notification issued on 30 October 2026, professionals without a Haryana HPR ID at registration or renewal will get 90 days to obtain one, or their provisional registration will be suspended.

The HPR is one of the core registries of the Ayushman Bharat Digital Mission (ABDM), run by the National Health Authority (NHA). It gives each verified practitioner a unique digital identity that hospitals, patients and digital health services can check. The move adds a workforce layer to Haryana’s recent push on e-Upchar OPD pre-registration and UPI payments in public hospitals.

Who needs a Haryana HPR ID

The mandate covers all eligible healthcare professionals working or registered in Haryana. According to the state notification, it applies to:

• Doctors, dentists and AYUSH practitioners
• Nurses, including auxiliary nurse midwives (ANMs), general nursing and midwifery (GNM) staff and BSc and MSc nursing graduates
• Pharmacists and other eligible allied healthcare professionals

It will be enforced through five bodies: the Haryana State Medical Council, Haryana State Dental Council, Haryana Nurses and Nurse-Midwives Council, Council of Indian Medicine Haryana and Haryana State Pharmacy Council. The requirement applies to fresh registrations and renewals. The notification takes effect one month after its publication in the official gazette.

How the 90-day deadline works

A professional who applies for registration or renewal without an HPR ID will be registered provisionally for up to 90 days and can keep practising during that time. The ID is obtained by submitting valid documents on the HPR portal.

Councils must send at least three reminders by registered email and SMS: the first within 30 days of provisional registration, the second between days 30 and 60, and the last between days 60 and 75. If the ID is still missing after 90 days, the provisional registration is suspended without further notice, and the professional cannot practise until the council reinstates it after HPR enrolment.

Those whose registration or renewal falls due within 30 days of the notification get a one-time 30-day transition window to obtain the ID.

Why Haryana wants a verified registry

Virender Yadav, Director of the National Health Mission (NHM) Haryana, said the aim is a verified, standardised digital repository of healthcare professionals that will help verify credentials and support workforce planning, monitoring, deployment and policy-making. The state expects the registry to be publicly searchable, so patients can check a practitioner’s registration status and quacks without valid registration are easier to identify.

The councils must record HPR IDs in their own databases, run awareness drives for unregistered professionals and send periodic compliance reports. The state ABDM office will review progress, with a stated goal of 100% HPR registration.

Nationally, the ABDM Insights dashboard listed 13,88,972 verified healthcare professionals on the HPR as of 1 November 2026. Linking those IDs to practice licences is a step toward the trusted, connected records that ABDM depends on, a gap highlighted in Elets eHealth’s analysis of why most digital health IDs still have no medical records attached.

Key takeaways

• Haryana’s 30 October 2026 notification makes an HPR ID compulsory for new registrations and renewals across five professional councils.
• Professionals without an ID get up to 90 days and three reminders before provisional registration is suspended.
• The registry is meant to help patients verify practitioners and help the state plan its health workforce.

FAQ: Haryana HPR ID mandate

What is an HPR ID?

It is a verified digital identity for a healthcare professional on ABDM’s Healthcare Professional Registry, available through the HPR portal.

What happens if a professional misses the 90-day deadline?

Their provisional registration is suspended and they cannot practise until the council reinstates it after they obtain an HPR ID.

Also read: ABHA App Discontinued as ABDM Moves Citizens to Aarogya Setu 2.0

Featured image: Health care workers at Dr. Ram Manohar Lohia Hospital, New Delhi. Photo: Ministry of Health and Family Welfare via Wikimedia Commons (GODL-India).

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