Lothian Medicines Information Centre
The Lothian Medicines Information (MI) Service provides advice and support to the multidisciplinary team on clinical practice and pharmaceutical care of individual patients across NHS Lothian through the provision of:
- An enquiry answering service for complex medicine-related issues
- Advice on cost-effective use of medicines
- Production of guidelines for intravenous use of medicines
In addition the service provides training in medicines information skills for optimal use of information resources to the pharmacy service.
Yellow Card Centre (YCC) Scotland, the adverse drug reaction centre for Scotland, is based within LMIS. YCC Scotland is responsible for:
- Raising the profile of adverse drug reactions (ADRs) as an important health issue amongst both professionals and the public in Scotland,
- Enhancing the quality and quantity of spontaneous ADR reports,
- Improving education about ADRs for undergraduates and postgraduate healthcare professionals, and
- Promoting research that facilitates better understanding of the causes, effects and avoidance of ADRs.
We deal with enquiries from all health professionals within Lothian.
Contact Us
Tel: 0131 242 2920