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This was published when the organisation was the Royal Pharmaceutical Society.

Where can you can find high-quality, free information on the internet?

RCPharm website

The RCPharm website includes good-quality, free information for members including:

• Access to current guidance and professional standards.
• Access to our library’s e-resources including e-books, databases and our open-access journals list.

NHS resources

• NHS: the UK’s largest health website.
  • Directory of NHS services (including pharmacies).
  • Care and support guide.
  • News (background information to health stories).
  • Health A-Z (information on conditions and treatments).
• Specialist Pharmacy Service – part of the NHS.
  • Information about medicines – including new medicines, shortages and discontinuations.
  • Regulatory advice, policy, guidance (etc.).

Medicines information

• electronic medicines compendium – up-to-date information about medicines licensed for use in the UK.
  • Summaries of product characteristics.
  • Patient information leaflets.

Children’s medicines

• Medicines for Children – a useful site to which to direct parents.
  • Medicines information leaflets.
  • How to administer different types of medicine.

Medicines in pregnancy

• Best Use of Medicines in Pregnancy – the site is provided by the UK Teratology Information Service: a non-profit organisation funded by Public Health England.
  • Includes leaflets about the effects that medicines used during pregnancy might have on babies.

Veterinary medicines

• National Office of Animal Health (NOAH).
  • Includes NOAH data sheet compendium.

Travel health

• TravelHealthPro – guidance on travel health for healthcare professionals advising the public.
  • Travel-health information for individual countries and global health issues.
  • Clinical resources for health professionals who administer the yellow fever vaccine.

Free databases

• The Cochrane Library includes six databases which include different types of evidence:
  • Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews.
  • Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials.
  • Cochrane Methodology Register.
  • Database of Abstracts of Reviews of Effects.
  • Health Technology Assessment Database.
  • NHS Economic Evaluation Database.