SystmOne to Integrate with MHRA Yellow Cards

TPP is working with the MHRA (Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency - the government agency responsible for ensuring that medicines and medical devices work and are acceptably safe) to improve the ease with which you can both report suspected adverse drug reactions and have access to the latest drug safety updates.

The MHRA's Yellow Card Scheme acts as an early warning system for the identification of previously unrecognised reactions and enables the MHRA to identify risk factors, outcomes and other factors that may affect clinical management.

When a patient presents with a suspected adverse drug reaction, clinicians can report this by filling out a 'Yellow Card' which is then submitted to the MHRA. At the moment, this is done either on paper or by filling in an online form, but both of those take time because each field needs to be completed manually. By integrating Yellow Cards into SystmOne, when a reaction is recorded, users will be prompted to complete a Yellow Card but all the information that SystmOne already knows about the matter will pre-populate the Card, making it quicker and easier.

In addition to this, TPP will be publishing the monthly 'Drug Safety Update' newsletter from the MHRA and the Commission on Human Medicines as a SystmOne Status Message. These updates provide the very latest information that all medicine users need to prescribe safely.

Claire Tilstone, Editor of Drug Safety Update, says, "We're hoping that by making Drug Safety Update available directly to SystmOne users, clinicians won't miss out on this essential information."

For more information about the MHRA, Drug Safety Updates, and the Yellow Card Scheme go to www.mhra.gov.uk