Download UKMi Recommended Resources with Free Access

Resources with Free Access
For NHS Medicines Information Services
This is a list of resources that are freely accessible and considered useful to NHS MI services. It includes free
paper resources (e.g. BNF, drug tariff) and freely accessible websites via the Internet or via National library
arrangements. This list is not intended to be exhaustive. It is organised under general subject headings and should
be used in conjunction with ‘Resources for Purchase by NHS Medicines Information Services’. Other UKMi
resources give guidance on what resources to use when, e.g. UKMi workbook, Enquiry Answering Guidelines.
There is also guidance on the risks associated with the use of various resources available in
Limitations of Common Information Sources used by UKMi at
http://www.ukmi.nhs.uk/filestore/ukmiacg/LimitationsofCommonInformationSourcesv6-June2014_3.doc.
Although UKMi cannot assure the quality of the listed resources, all those listed are produced by reputable/well
known organisations. URLs are available for download via the MiDatabank administrators and were correct at the
time of publication but are liable to change. Where registration is required this is indicated. This document may also
be used to store details of your departmental usernames and passwords if you haven’t entered them in
MiDatabank. This can then be kept in an accessible place for all staff working in MI.
See also Effective use of the Internet for Enquiry Answering for guidance on how to assess the quality of a website.
Updating the List
This list will be updated with new editions/ URLs etc. on an ongoing basis. The Clinical Governance Working Group
reviews the content of the list periodically although the content of the website or resource is not formally reviewed.
Suggestions for additions or deletions can be forwarded to [email protected]
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Changes since October 2014
Title
Authors/
Publisher
URL and general notes
Paediatric Formulary
9th Edition 2014
Guy’s, St Thomas’
and Lewisham
Hospitals
Change: addition to the list
Hard copy no longer available for purchase. A downloadable
PDF is available for free.
http://www.guysandstthomas.nhs.uk/resources/publications/for
mulary/paediatric-formulary-9th-edition.pdf
Medicines
Compliance Aid
(MCA) database
UKMi
Change: addition to the list
http://www.ukmi.nhs.uk/applications/mca/
Memorial SloanKettering Cancer
Centre
Integrative Medicine
Service
Change: addition to the list
http://www.mskcc.org/cancer-care/integrative-medicine/aboutherbs-botanicals-other-products
Date: February 2015
Title
Username/
password
Authors/ Publisher
URL and general notes
General
British National
Formulary
BMA and RPS (twice
yearly)
One paper copy considered essential for each
MI centre (only the September edition is
published for free; March edition only
available fro purchase).
Online access preferred as updated monthly
www.medicinescomplete.com/mc/bnf/current/
DoH—Department of
Health
DoH
https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations
/department-of-health
Drug Safety Update
MHRA
https://www.gov.uk/drug-safety-update
Drug Tariff
The Stationery Office
(monthly)
Only available online
www.ppa.org.uk/ppa/edt_intro.htm
electronic Medicines
Compendium (eMC)
DataPharm
Communications
http://www.medicines.org.uk/emc/
England:
www.evidence.nhs.uk/nhs-evidencecontent/journals-and-databases.
Athens password required.
Wales:
http://howis.wales.nhs.uk
Scotland:
www.knowledge.scot.nhs.uk/home.aspx
EMBASE
Google search engine
Google
www.google.co.uk for general seach engine
but also use Google scholar for more
academic focus http://scholar.google.co.uk/
Medicines Q & As
UKMi
http://www.ukmi.nhs.uk/activities/medicinesQ
As/default.asp
An excel spreadsheet is available (with links)
to all current Q & As.
Q & As can also be accessed via the NICE
evidence search www.evidence.nhs.uk
(filter by Type of information ‘Evidence
Summaries’ and Source ‘UKMi')
England:
www.evidence.nhs.uk/nhs-evidencecontent/journals-and-databases
Athens password required.
Wales:
http://howis.wales.nhs.uk
Scotland:
www.knowledge.scot.nhs.uk/home.aspx
Medline
MHRA—Medicines &
Healthcare
Regulatory Agency
MHRA
www.mhra.gov.uk
MIMS
Monthly Index of
Medical Specialities
Haymarket Medical
Pubs.
www.emims.net Username and password
required. NB. Access free to MICs (contact
Regional Centre for details)
Netdoctor
Collaboration of UK
and European
healthcare
professionals
www.netdoctor.co.uk
www.netdoctor.co.uk/medicines/
For information about drugs, search the
“Medicines” section rather than the whole site.
Date: February 2015
Title
Username/
password
Authors/ Publisher
URL and general notes
General
OTC Directory
Proprietary
Association of Great
Britain
Available in searchable form at
www.medicinechestonline.co.uk. Use website
drop down and selection criteria to access.
UKMi
UKMi
www.ukmi.nhs.uk
Some areas are password protected (contact
Regional Centre for password)
UKMi Discussion
Group
Ecompass (host)
http://list.ecompass.nl/listserv/cgibin/wa?A0=MI-UK
Adverse effects
CHM—Commission
on Human Medicines
CHM/MHRA
www.mhra.gov.uk/Committees/Medicinesadvi
sorybodies/CommissiononHumanMedicines/i
ndex.htm.
Drug Analysis Prints
(DAPs) for Yellow
Card data
MHRA
http://www.mhra.gov.uk/drug-analysisprints/drug-analysis-prints-a-z/index.htm
INCHEM
International
Programme on
Chemical Safety
www.inchem.org/.
Toxicology information on chemicals and
drugs.
TOXNET
US National Library
Medicine
http://toxnet.nlm.nih.gov/. Toxicology
information including pregnancy related
toxicity information. Also links to LactMed
(see below) for drugs in lactation information.
G6PD website
Associazione Italiana
Favismo
http://www.g6pd.org/.
Associazione Italiana Favismo is affiliated
with UNIAMO, Italian Federation for Rare
Diseases, which is member of EURORDIS,
European Organization for Rare Diseases.
This site should not be used in isolation for
g6pd queries; no single resource is
comprehensive. This site contains lists of
safe and unsafe drugs and also attempts to
quantify risk (low vs. high).
Availability
IDIS World Medicines
IDIS World Medicines
www.idispharma.com
Durbin PLC
Durbin PLC
www.durbin.co.uk
Pro-file Database
Guy’s and St Thomas’
Hospital NHS Trust
Sourcing unlicensed ‘special’ medicines.
www.pro-file.nhs.uk. Registration required.
Complementary Medicine
Memorial SloanKettering Cancer
Centre
Date: February 2015
Integrative Medicine
Service
http://www.mskcc.org/cancer-care/integrativemedicine/about-herbs-botanicals-otherproducts
Information for patients is also available
Title
Username/
password
Authors/ Publisher
URL and general notes
Complementary Medicine
Safety of Herbal
Medicines
MHRA
www.mhra.gov.uk/Safetyinformation/Safetywa
rningsalertsandrecalls/Safetywarningsandmes
sagesformedicines/Safetywarningsandmessa
gesforherbalmedicines/index.htm
Contraception and Hormone Replacement Therapy
IPPF Directory of
Hormonal
Contraceptives
International Planned
Parenthood
Federation
http://contraceptive.ippf.org
Registration required. Can be used to identify
foreign contraceptive pills.
Family Planning
Association
Family Planning
Association
www.fpa.org.uk
Contraception and Hormone Replacement Therapy
Faculty of Family
Planning and
Reproductive
Healthcare
Royal College of
Obstetricians and
Gynaecologists
www.ffprhc.org.uk/.
Useful guidelines including choice of a
contraceptive agent at different ages, in
breast feeding, inflammatory bowel disease,
interactions, missed pills and using pills
outside their product licence, EHC and
product reviews.
Diagnostic tests
Labtests online
Collaboration of
professional societies
and supported by the
Department of Health.
www.labtestsonline.org.uk/.
Patient orientated.
Drug abuse
Drug Misuse and
Dependence—
Guidelines on Clinical
Management (The
Orange Guide)
National Treatment
Agency
www.nta.nhs.uk/uploads/clinical_guidelines_2
007.pdf
DrugScope
DrugScope
www.drugscope.org.uk
National Institute on
Drug Abuse
The National Institute
on Drug Abuse (US)
www.nida.nih.gov
Talk to Frank
DoH / Home Office
www.talktoFrank.com
Drug administration
Intravenous Drug
Administration Guides
UKMi recommends all centres have access to good quality IV administration guidance.
IMG—Injectable
Medicines Guide
(Medusa)
Health of Wales
Information Service
http://medusa.wales.nhs.uk or
www.injguide.nhs.uk.
NB. Available free to contributing Trusts and
all Trusts in Wales & N Ireland.
Stabilis
Compiled by hospital
pharmacists in France
http://www.stabilis.org/
Compatibility and stability data to supplement
other resources.
Date: February 2015
Title
Username/
password
Authors/ Publisher
URL and general notes
Drug interactions
HIV Drug Interactions
The University of
Liverpool
www.hiv-druginteractions.org
Hepatitis drug
interactions
The University of
Liverpool
www.hep-druginteractions.org
Cytochrome P450
website
Indiana University
http://medicine.iupui.edu/flockhart/
QT prolongation
US education
organisation AZCERT
www.azcert.org.
List drugs that prolong the QT Interval and/or
induce Torsades de Pointes by risk category.
Medscape drug
interaction checker
Medscape
www.medscape.com/druginfo/drugintercheck
er
Registration required.
Drugs.com
interactions checker
Cerner Multum
http://www.drugs.com/drug_interactions.html
To be used only after other approved sources
have been used. Useful for information not
readily available in UK sources.
Evidence Based Medicine
Evidence Search—
Health and Social
care
NICE
www.evidence.nhs.uk.
General search engine for evidence based
reviews relevant to the NHS.
Bandolier
Pain Research Group
Oxford
www.medicine.ox.ac.uk/bandolier
N.B. It doesn’t look as if this site has been
updated for some time. Still useful for
explanations of terms e.g. NNT etc but do not
use for evidence.
The Cochrane Library
The Cochrane
Foundation
John Wiley & Sons
http://www.cochranelibrary.com/
Medicines and
Prescribing Centre
NICE
http://www.nice.org.uk/mpc/index.jsp
New site following integration of the former
National Prescribing Centre into NICE.
NICE -National
Institute for Health
and Care Excellence
NICE
www.nice.org.uk
CKS
Clinical Knowledge
Summaries
NICE
http://cks.nice.org.uk/
SIGN—Scottish
Intercollegiate
Guidelines Network
SIGN
www.sign.ac.uk
WeMeRec Bulletins
Welsh Medicines
Resource Centre
www.wemerec.org
HTA assessments
National Coordinating
Centre for HTA
www.hta.ac.uk/ Many of these evaluations
inform NICE guidance.
Centre for Reviews
and Dissemination
University of York
www.york.ac.uk/inst/crd/
Date: February 2015
Title
Username/
password
Authors/ Publisher
URL and general notes
Infections
The Green Book
Immunisation Against
Infectious Disease
DoH
https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations
/public-health-england/series/immunisationagainst-infectious-disease-the-green-book
Immunisation
Information
Public Health England
https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations
/public-health-england/series/immunisation
Public Health England
Gov.uk
https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations
/public-health-england
Replaces the Health Protection Agency site
Lactation
At least two resources should be used for all lactation enquiries.
See also Resources for purchase list.
LactMed
US National Library of
Medicine
http://toxnet.nlm.nih.gov/cgibin/sis/htmlgen?LACT.
UK Drugs in Lactation
Advisory Service
database
Trent and West
Midlands MIC
UKMi
http://www.midlandsmedicines.nhs.uk/content
.asp?section=6&subsection=17&pageIdx=1
Legal and ethical
Medicines, Ethics and
Practice: A guide for
pharmacists and
pharmacy technicians
RPS
www.rpharms.com/law-and-ethics/medicinesethics-and-practice-guide.asp
Only free to RPS members.
New products
NDO
New Drugs Online
UKMi
www.ukmi.nhs.uk/applications/NDO/
Registration required (free). Also contains
links to independent new medicines reviews.
New medicines
reviews
UKMi/L(C)NDG
UKMi/ L(C)NDG/ RDTC new medicines
evaluations listed at
http://www.ukmi.nhs.uk/activities/newProduct
s/default.asp?pageRef=3
but available via www.evidence.nhs.uk
NIHR Horizon
Scanning Centre
http://www.hsc.nihr.ac.uk/
Midlands
Therapeutics and
Review Advisory
Committee (MTRAC)
http://centreformedicinesoptimisation.co.uk/mt
rac/committee-recommendations
Click on relevant alphabetical files to access
‘Commissioning support sheets’ for listed
products. Tick box and download to access
pdf document.
Patents Database
UKMi
http://www.midlandsmedicines.nhs.uk/content
.asp?section=5&subsection=9&pageIdx=1
UKMi username and password required
Prescribing Outlook
UKMi
http://www.ukmi.nhs.uk/activities/newProduct
s/default.asp?pageRef=12
Scottish medicines
Consortium (SMC)
reviews
SMC
www.scottishmedicines.org.uk/
All Wales Medicines
Strategy Group
(AWMSG) reviews
AWMSG
www.wales.nhs.uk/sites3/home.cfm?OrgID=3
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Date: February 2015
Title
Username/
password
Authors/ Publisher
URL and general notes
New products
European Medicines
Agency
EMA
www.ema.europa.eu
Paediatrics
BNF for Children
2014-2015
BMA, RPSGB,
RCPCH & NPPG
(annual)
One paper copy considered essential for each
MI centre (published annually)online via.
Online access preferred since the content is
updated monthly.
http://www.medicinescomplete.com/mc/bnfc/c
urrent/
Paediatric Formulary
9th Edition, 2014
Guy’s, St Thomas’
and Lewisham
Hospitals
9th edition available as a PDF via:
http://www.guysandstthomas.nhs.uk/resource
s/publications/formulary/paediatric-formulary9th-edition.pdf.
An iApp is due to be released in March 2015
(small charge will apply)
Medicines for
Children
Partnership RCPCH,
NPPG and WellChild.
http://www.medicinesforchildren.org.uk/. Also
contains patient information leaflets.
Palliative care
Palliative Adult
Network Guidelines
(PANG)
Developed by a
collaboration of UK
Cancer networks
Freely available at http://book.pallcare.info/.
This should be used as a core resource in
preference to the print version, but not the
electronic version, of Palliative Care
Formulary (see below).
Palliative Care
Matters
Network of Palliative
Care healthcare
professionals.
www.pallcare.info/ Use in preference to
PANG for syringe driver compatibilities
www.pallcare.info/mod.php?mod=sdrivers&m
enu=14
Palliativedrugs.com
(Palliative Care
Formulary on-line)
Robert Twycross &
Andrew Wilcock
www.palliativedrugs.com
(Registration required), but the syringe
driver tables are freely available using login
(click on SDSD tab).
Patient information
NHS Choices
Gov.uk
http://www.nhs.uk
Patient UK
Patient Information
Publications/ Egton
Medical Information
Systems
www.patient.co.uk.
This site has useful healthcare professional
pages (see Therapeutics section below).
Medicines Guides
Datapharm
Communications
www.medicines.org.uk/Guides
Pharmaceutical
The Fridge Database
Northwick Park MIC
UKMi
www.ukmi.nhs.uk/Secure/Fridge/Index.asp
UKMi username and password required
Medicines
Compliance Aid
(MCA) database
Southwest Medicines
Information
UKMi
http://www.ukmi.nhs.uk/applications/mca/
Date: February 2015
Title
Username/
password
Authors/ Publisher
URL and general notes
Pregnancy
At least two resources should be used for all pregnancy enquiries.
See also Resources for purchase list.
TOXBASE
UKTIS* UK
Teratology
Information Service
www.toxbase.org
Registration required.
Monographs not suitable as patient
information leaflets—see BUMPs.
Royal College of
Obstetrics and
Gynaecology
Royal College of
Obstetrics and
Gynaecology
https://www.rcog.org.uk
A range of guidelines on women’s health is
available.
BUMPS—Best use of
medicines in
pregnancy
UKTIS
www.medicinesinpregnancy.org.
Produced by UKTIS. Provides information
factsheets (containing essentially the same
information as Toxbase) suitable for members
of the public which can be used in discussion
with a health care provider. Inclusion on this
list does not endorse its use by patients
without such support.
Psychiatry
www.switchwiki.eu
Psychiatrienet
http://wiki.psychiatrienet.nl/index.php/Main_P
age
Contains tables for:
 Switching between antidepressants
 Switching between antipsychotics
 Benzodiazepine conversion calculator
NB. Inaccuracies in some tables have been
identified. The authors have subsequently
corrected these. This resource should only be
used in conjunction with other resources and,
ideally, be discussed with a mental health
specialist
Liver impairment
LiverTox
Date: February 2015
See opposite for
details.
http://livertox.nlm.nih.gov/index.html
This resource is a joint venture between the
Liver Disease Research Branch of the
National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive
and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK) and the
Division of Specialized Information Services
of the National Library of Medicine (NLM),
National Institutes of Health
Title
Username/
password
Authors/ Publisher
URL and general notes
Statistics
Statistics in Divided
Doses
North West MIC
UKMi
www.ukmi.nhs.uk/activities/Research/default.
asp?pageRef=27
Therapeutics
Patient UK
Patient Information
Publications / Egton
Medical Information
Systems
www.patient.co.uk.
After putting a term in the search box you will
have a list of resources to choose from.
Those with an apple and a plus sign are
written for healthcare professionals and are
an excellent resource with the following
general headings: presentation, diagnosis,
aetiology, epidemiology, assessment,
management etc.
The Merck Manual of
Diagnosis and
Treatment
Berkow, R et al
Merck and Co.
www.merckmanuals.com/professional/index.h
tml.
The latest edition can also be purchased as a
hard copy.
Dermnet
New Zealand
Dermatological
Society
www.dermnetnz.org/
A useful starting point for background
information and advice for dermatological
enquiries.
Travel
Malaria Reference
Laboratory
HPA (now part of
Public Health
England)
www.malaria-reference.co.uk
National Travel Health
Network and Centre
(NaTHNaC)
National Travel Health
Network and Centre,
DoH
www.nathnac.org.
This advice is based on that produced by the
HPA (now Public Health England) and may
differ from advice in other sources (i.e.
Travax, Fit for Travel). However, all advice is
evidence based. It is advised that one
resource only is used in these circumstances.
Health Advice for
Travellers
NHS England
http://www.nhs.uk/nhsengland/Healthcareabr
oad/pages/Healthcareabroad.aspx
Fit for Travel
Provided by NHS
Scotland.
www.fitfortravel.nhs.uk.
Public access site for sister site Travax.
This advice is based on that produced by
NHS Scotland and may differ from advice in
other sources (i.e. NaTHNac). However, all
advice is evidence based. It is advised that
one resource only is used in these
circumstances.
Wound management and dressings
Dressings.org
Date: February 2015
Surgical Materials
Testing Laboratory
www.dressings.org
NB website last modified Nov 2011