Health
Government and NHS Bodies
DH - Department of Health
MHRA - Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency
Information about the regulatory processes for medicines and devices in the UK, including news about initiatives in Europe and beyond
The MHRA and the Commission on Human Medicines produce a monthly electronic bulletin, Drug Safety Update, providing the latest information and clinical advice on the safe use of medicines
EMA - European Medicines Agency
EMA is responsible for issuing European marketing authorisation and for controlling the safety of medicines
CHM - Commission on Human Medicines
This site provides information about the Commission's responsibilities for the quality, efficacy and safety of medicines
DVLA - Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency
http://www.dvla.gov.uk/medical.aspx
Information on the national medical guidelines of fitness to drive
Medicines Partnership
Information on medicine taking and concordance for academics, healthcare professionals, patients and the general public
SMC - Scottish Medicines Consortium
http://www.scottishmedicines.org.uk/
The Scottish Medicines Consortium (SMC) provides advice across Scotland to NHS Boards and their Area Drug and Therapeutics Committees (ADTCs) about the status of new medicines, formulations, or major new indications for established medicines.
SHOW - Scotland's Health on the Web
Provides a focal point for NHS in Scotland
TOXBASE®
The Primary Clinical Toxicology Database of the National Poisons Information Service
HPA - Health Protection Agency
http://www.hpa.org.uk/infections/
HPA protects the population from infection by detecting, diagnosing, and monitoring communicable diseases
All Wales Medicines Strategy Group
http://www.wales.nhs.uk/sites3/home.cfm?OrgID=371
The All Wales Medicines Strategy Group (AWMSG) develops independent and authoritative advice on new drugs and on the cost implications of making these drugs routinely available on the NHS in Wales and advises the Welsh Assembly on prescribing strategy for Wales and on future developments in healthcare
Guidelines
NHS Centre for Reviews
http://www.york.ac.uk/inst/crd/
A source of information on the effectiveness of treatments and the delivery and organisation of healthcare
HTA - The Health Technology Assessment programme
This is a national programme of research into the costs, effectiveness and broader impact of health technologies; the output is aimed at those who use, manage and provide care in the NHS
NICE - The National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence
NICE provides the NHS (patients, health professionals and the public) in England and Wales with authoritative, robust and reliable guidance on current "best practice"
Clinical Knowledge Summaries
http://www.cks.library.nhs.uk/
The Clinical Knowledge Summaries service (CKS) is a NHS funded resource that provides ready access to practical and reliable clinical knowledge about the common conditions managed in primary and first contact care
SIGN - Scottish Intercollegiate Guidelines Network.
Develops and publishes evidence-based clinical practice guidelines
Intute: health & life sciences (closed July 2011)
http://www.intute.ac.uk/healthandlifesciences/
Internet resource gateway (medicine, biomedicine, allied health, health management, etc)
eMC - Electronic Medicines Compendium
The Cochrane Collaboration
An international not-for-profit organisation which provides information on systematic reviews and robust studies on healthcare interventions
The Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews is published as part of The Cochrane Library.
Bandolier
http://www.medicine.ox.ac.uk/bandolier/
Evidence-based health journal
