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New Study Launched For Pharmacists to Report Adverse Drug Reactions Electronically

The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) is working in partnership with the UK Medicines Information service (UKMi) to make Yellow Card reporting easier for pharmacists. The new study will enable the capture of information about each adverse drug reaction and the automatic production of a Yellow Card from that data.

Medicines information pharmacists at five NHS hospitals in the UK are now involved in, evaluating the new system for reporting adverse drug reactions electronically to the Yellow Card Scheme. The study is being led by Southampton University Hospitals NHS Trust on behalf of UKMi. The MHRA targeted research programme will be supporting and monitoring the introduction of this system in the five UK medicines information centres. The system will be deployed nationwide once the pilot is successfully completed.

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