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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 at www.ukmi.nhs.uk/filestore/ukmiacg/Risk-CommonInformationSources2.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 or use www.judgehealth.org.uk with tips on how to assess health related websites. 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]. Changes since October 2012 Title URL and general notes Authors/ Publisher Drug administration Stabilis Compiled by hospital pharmacists in France http://www.stabilis.org/ Compatibility and stability information. Use to supplement other resources. Drug interactions 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. Palliative care Palliative Adult Network Guidelines (PANG) Developed by a collaboration of UK Cancer networks Freely available at http://book.pallcare.info/. Change: This resource should be used as a core resource in preference to the print version of PCF4. Renal CKD Insights Date: December 2012 Genzyme Renal Support Services Change: Direct link to ‘Dialysis of Drugs’ added (http://renalpharmacyconsultants.com/sitebuildercontent/sitebui lderfiles/DialysisofDrugsUS2011web.pdf). 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, online www.medicinescomplete.com/mc/bnf/current/. Online is preferred as the electronic BNF will be updated monthly from October 2012. The paper version will still only be published every 6 months. Drug Tariff The Stationery Office (monthly) Paper and online available www.ppa.org.uk/ppa/edt_intro.htm electronic Medicines Compendium (eMC) DataPharm Communications http://emc.medicines.org.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. 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 Note – some areas are password protected – contact regional centre for password. NeLM -National electronic Library for Medicines UKMi www.nelm.nhs.uk Registration required for email alerts. 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. TICTAC Virtual Health Network CD-ROM updated 4 times a year accessed via the regional centre. Medline England: www.evidence.nhs.uk/. Wales: http://howis.wales.nhs.uk Scotland: www.elib.scot.nhs.uk Athens password required (England) EMBASE Elsevier England: www.evidence.nhs.uk/. Wales: http://howis.wales.nhs.uk Scotland: www.elib.scot.nhs.uk Athens password required (England) DoH - Department of Health DoH www.dh.gov.uk MHRA - Medicines & Healthcare Regulatory Agency MHRA www.mhra.gov.uk 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/ Adverse effects CHM -Commission on Human Medicines Date: December 2012 CHM/MHRA www.mhra.gov.uk/Committees/Medicinesadvi sorybodies/CommissiononHumanMedicines/i ndex.htm. Use to access Drug Safety Update www.mhra.gov.uk/Safetyinformation/DrugSaf etyUpdate/index.htm Title Username/ password Authors/ Publisher URL and general notes Drug Analysis Prints (DAPs) for Yellow Card data CHM/MHRA www.mhra.gov.uk/Safetyinformation/Howwem onitorthesafetyofproducts/Medicines/TheYello wCardScheme/YellowCarddata/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. Availability IDIS World Medicines IDIS World Medicines www.idispharma.com www.idispharma.com/pharmacist.php Durbin PLC Durbin PLC www.durbin.co.uk Pro-file Database Guy’s and St Thomas’ Hospital NHS Trust Sourcing unlicensed ‘special’ medicinal products. www.pro-file.nhs.uk. Registration required. 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. Used by the RPS Information Service to identify foreign contraceptive pills. Family Planning Association Family Planning Association www.fpa.org.uk 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 Date: December 2012 Title Username/ password Authors/ Publisher URL and general notes Drug administration Intravenous Drug Administration Guides UKMi recommends all centres have access to good quality IV administration guidance. IV Guide 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. Drug interactions HIV Drug Interactions The University of Liverpool www.hiv-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. Evidence Based Medicine Evidence in 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 OR via www.evidence.nhs.uk/nhs-evidencecontent/journals-and-databases OR www.wales.nhs.uk OR http://howis.wales.nhs.uk OR www.elib.scot.nhs.uk Access provided by National Library for Health (England), Health of Wales Information Service & e-Library (Scotland) The Cochrane Library The Cochrane Foundation John Wiley & Sons Via www.evidence.nhs.uk OR www.wales.nhs.uk OR http://howis.wales.nhs.uk OR www.elib.scot.nhs.uk Free access provided by National Library for Health (England), Health of Wales Information Service & eLibrary (Scotland) MeReC Publications National Prescribing Centre www.npc.nhs.uk/merec - NPC legacy site. From May 2012 the work of the NPC will form the NICE Medicines and Prescribing Centre. As part of NICE, all future Medicines and prescribing outputs will be published on the NICE website and signposted from the Medicines and prescribing home page. Date: December 2012 Title Username/ password Authors/ Publisher URL and general notes National Prescribing Centre National Prescribing Centre www.npc.co.uk - NPC legacy site. No new medicines and prescribing content will be published to the NPC legacy website, the catalogue of existing publications, resources and e-learning materials will still be available to view and download for as long as the information contained within them remains accurate and up-to-date. 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 Clinical Excellence NICE www.nice.org.uk Prodigy Clarity Informatics Ltd http://www.prodigy.clarity.co.uk/home. 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/ Infections The Green Book Immunisation Against Infectious Disease DoH http://immunisation.dh.gov.uk/gb-individualcurrent-chapters/ Immunisation Information DoH All content from www.immunisation.nhs.uk has moved to www.dh.gov.uk/en/Publichealth/Immunisation/ index.htm HPA - Health Protection Agency HPA www.hpa.org.uk 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). Pre-launch reviews NPC/UKMi www.nelm.nhs.uk. Registration required. Reviews are ‘New Drugs’ section which is not visible unless logged on. National horizon scanning centre http://www.nhsc-healthhorizons.org.uk/ UKMi www.nelm.nhs.uk Post-launch reviews Date: December 2012 Title Username/ password Authors/ Publisher URL and general notes Patents Database Online UKMi www.ukmi.nhs.uk/med_info/patent.asp UKMi username and password required Prescribing Outlook UKMi www.nelm.nhs.uk Registration is required to access this. It is in the Evidence/ horizon scanning section. 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 71 European Medicines Agency EMA www.ema.europa.eu Paediatrics BNF for Children 2012-2013 BMA, RPSGB, RCPCH & NPPG (annual) One paper copy considered essential for each MI centre, online via www.medicinescomplete.com/mc/bnfc/current Online is preferred as the electronic BNFc will be updated monthly from October 2012. The paper version will still only be published annually. Palliative care Palliative Adult Network Guidelines (PANG) Developed by a collaboration of UK Cancer networks Freely available at http://book.pallcare.info/. This resource should be used as a core resource in preference to the print version of PCF4. 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 Robert Twycross & Andrew Wilcock www.palliativedrugs.com (Registration required). PCF4 is now only available via subscription. NB. The syringe driver tables are still freely available using login (click on SDSD tabs, Click here to continue to SDSD search page) Patient information NHS Direct Online NHS Direct www.nhsdirect.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 UKMi www.ukmi.nhs.uk/Secure/Fridge/Index.asp UKMi username and password required Patents Database UKMi www.ukmicentral.nhs.uk/pressupp/patents/def ault.asp Date: December 2012 Title Username/ password Authors/ Publisher URL and general notes Pregnancy and lactation At least two resources should be used for all pregnancy and lactation enquiries. See also Resources for purchase list. TOXBASE NTIS* National Teratology Information Service www.toxbase.org *Pregnancy information only, registration required. At least two resources should be used for all pregnancy and lactation enquiries. Monographs not suitable as patient information leaflets. LactMed US National Library of Medicine http://toxnet.nlm.nih.gov/cgibin/sis/htmlgen?LACT. At least two resources should be used for all pregnancy and lactation enquiries. Royal College of Obstetrics and Gynaecology Royal College of Obstetrics and Gynaecology www.rcog.org.uk/index.asp?PageID=8 A range of guidelines on women’s health is available. Drugs in Lactation UKMi www.ukmicentral.nhs.uk/drugpreg/guide.htm The ‘Quick Reference Guide’ is currently being revised to include an evidence-based recommendation on all drugs detailed in the BNF which may be used in breastfeeding mothers. Psychiatry psychiatrynet.eu 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. Renal CKD Insights Genzyme Renal Support Services Statistics Date: December 2012 www.ckdinsights.com Gives access to ‘Dialysis of Drugs’ (http://renalpharmacyconsultants.com/sitebuil dercontent/sitebuilderfiles/DialysisofDrugsUS 2011web.pdf). This is an American text produced by an expert in nephrology pharmacy. It is updated annually and provides information on the dialysability of drugs in patients receiving hemodialysis and peritoneal dialysis. Title Statistics in Divided Doses Username/ password Authors/ Publisher North West MIC UKMi URL and general notes 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. Paper copy 19th edition (2011) can also be purchased. Travel Malaria Reference Laboratory HPA www.malaria-reference.co.uk National Travel Health Network and Centre (NaTHNaC) National Travel Health Network and Centre, DoH www.nathnac.org. Also link to www.fitfortravel.nhs.uk Health Advice for Travellers DoH www.nhs.uk/Healthcareabroad/Pages/Healthc areabroad.aspx Fit for Travel Provide by NHS Scotland. www.fitfortravel.scot.nhs.uk. Public access site. NPA Malaria Prophylaxis and Travel vaccine information National Pharmaceutical Association NPA travel resources are no longer available via NeLM. Now only free to NPA members. Travel vaccination: www.nelm.nhs.uk/en/Communities/NeLM/NP A/Info-Services/NPA-Vaccine-Requirementsfor-Travellers-Abroad-leaflet-0510/ - No longer free. Malaria prophylaxis: www.nelm.nhs.uk/en/Communities/NeLM/NP A/Info-Services/Malaria-Prophylaxis-forTravellers-Abroad/ - No longer free. Wound management and dressings Dressings.org Date: December 2012 Surgical Materials Testing Laboratory www.dressings.org