Medicine Guides are a new information source for members of the public who are looking for medicines information that is reliable and understandable.

A comprehensive drug information system available on the Internet and on CD-ROM. It offers doctors and other health professionals easy access to an extensive range of drug information. For an overview of eMIMS' contents visit our virtual consulting room.

The CD-ROM for drug identification of tablets & capsules

Acts as an early warning system for the identification of previously unrecognised reactions and enables us to identify risk factors, outcome of the ADR and other factors that may affect clinical management.

SafeScript have developed the World Standard Drug Database, which relates knowledge about drug products and their ingredients to knowledge about individual patients held in (e.g.) Read Coded format in electronic clinical computer systems. Use of this database integrated into such clinical patient notes systems allows optimisation of prescribing including intelligent flagging of contraindications and interactions etc, to help reduce prescriber errors. In other words this is a remarkable tool for preventing doctors making mistakes in prescribing.

The Executive Agency of the Department of Health protecting and promoting public health and patient safety by ensuring that medicines, healthcare products and medical equipment meet appropriate standards of safety, quality, performance and effectiveness, and are used safely.The MHRA was formed from a merger of the Medicines Control Agency (MCA) and the Medical Devices Agency (MDA).

A health service organisation, formed in April 1996 by the Department of Health. Its aim is to 'promote and support high quality, cost-effective prescribing and medicines management across the NHS, to help improve patient care and service delivery'.

Represents the manufacturers of over-the-counter medicines and food supplements in the United Kingdom.

An on-line pharmaceutical intelligence resource for horizon products.