Medication affecting other medications

I'm sure there's been mentioned a website that details what medications interact with other medications, the only one I can find from a search on here is evidence.nhs.uk/medicine

Is this the only one?

Thanks.

[helvella Administrator]

Drugs.com has quite a comprehensive one but it uses USA names and misses some medicines.

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Thank you.

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I've got Web MD, and that's USA there's a couple of my drugs not on because it's not UK.

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Thanks all.

[helvella Administrator]

Don't forget that the electronic Medicines Compendium has a lot of information. Worth reading the PIL and the SPC for each medicine you are interested in - often it is worth doing so for more than one make as their documents often differ.

What is the eMC?

The electronic Medicines Compendium (eMC) contains up to date, easily accessible information about medicines licensed for use in the UK. The eMC has more than 10,600 documents, all of which have been checked and approved by either the UK or European government agencies which license medicines. These agencies are the UK Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) and the European Medicines Agency (EMA).

The eMC was launched in 1999 and has become an established website, trusted for reliable information about medicines. The eMC is free to use and you don't have to register any personal details.

The eMC is managed and owned by Datapharm Communications Limited, known as Datapharm. We work with pharmaceutical companies, the NHS, and other healthcare organisations to provide good information about medicines.

What does the eMC contain?

The eMC contains two types of documents.

Summaries of Product Characteristics (known as SPCs or SmPCs)

Patient Information Leaflets (known as PILs, Package Leaflets or PLs)

Summaries of Product Characteristics

An SPC tells healthcare professionals, such as doctors, pharmacists and nurses, how to prescribe and use a medicine correctly. An SPC is based on clinical trials that a pharmaceutical company has carried out, and gives information about dose, use and possible side effects. An SPC is always written in a standard format, which is explained in our glossary.

Patient Information Leaflets

A PIL is the leaflet that is included in the pack with a medicine. The PIL is a summary of the SPC and is written for patients. Our glossary section explains more.

Where does the information come from?

All the information on the eMC website comes directly from pharmaceutical companies. Approximately 200 pharmaceutical companies subscribe to the eMC and so pay Datapharm to publish their information on the eMC website. This is how the information is approved and added.

The pharmaceutical company drafts a Summary of Product Characteristics (known as an SPC or SmPC) and Patient Information Leaflet (known as a PIL, Package Leaflet or PL), using all the up to date information about their medicine.

The UK or European medicines licensing agency - the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) or the European Medicines Agency (EMA) - then checks and approves the information.

The pharmaceutical company publishes the approved SPC and PIL on the eMC website.

medicines.org.uk/emc/

Rod

[Barb1949]

I belong to a site called Mediguard. Very helpful as you list all your meds and it gives info on interactions.