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You and your medicines<\/h1>\n

Reporting side effects<\/h2>\n

The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA)\u00a0 ensures that healthcare products meet appropriate standards of safety, quality and efficacy. It keeps watch over medicines and devices, and take necessary action to protect the public promptly if there is a problem.<\/p>\n

The MHRA runs the Yellow Card scheme<\/a>, which collects and monitors information on suspected safety concerns involving a healthcare products, like a side effect with a medicine or a medical device concern. The scheme relies on voluntary reporting of problems to a healthcare product by the public (including patients, parents and carer givers) as well as from healthcare professionals. The scheme also collects suspected safety concerns involving defective (not of an acceptable quality), falsified or fake healthcare products.<\/p>\n

Anyone – patients and clinicians – can report side effects and problems. Reporting suspected adverse effects to medicines as soon as they happen helps improve safety for future patients.<\/p>\n

Wasted or unused medicine<\/h2>\n

Wasted or unused medicine is a serious and growing problem within the NHS that you can help tackle.<\/p>\n

Medicines that are requested on prescriptions but then not used are sometimes referred to as Medicines Waste. Nationally, for every \u00a325 spent on prescription medication, \u00a31 is wasted – and the same is true across Bristol, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire.<\/p>\n

It is estimated that across the area, \u00a38 million is spent on unused medication every year and \u00a3300 million is spent nationally.<\/p>\n

The NHS pays for every medicine it dispenses and if it is not needed by the patient the NHS also pays for the medicines to be disposed of.<\/p>\n

By talking and listening to the local community, GPs, pharmacies and other healthcare professionals it\u2019s clear how important it is that we tackle the issue of medicine waste, particularly at a time when locally and nationally the NHS system is facing major challenges to meet the demand for services within available resources.<\/p>\n

We need your help<\/h2>\n

Reducing medicines waste is a key focus for us at Bristol, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire Integrated Care Board (ICB) but it is not something we can do alone.<\/p>\n

We need your help to work together to stop medicines waste across the area, reduce the spend, and get more from your local NHS.<\/p>\n

We want to raise awareness amongst the public and need to get residents in Bristol, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire to:<\/p>\n