MHRA Yellow Card Scheme

The Yellow Card scheme

The MHRA runs the Yellow Card scheme, which collects and monitors information on suspected safety concerns involving a healthcare products, like a side effect with a medicine or an adverse medical device incident.

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.

You can report your suspicions of a safety concern or incident yourself as a patient, user, parent, or on behalf of someone you care for.  Reporting is voluntary for healthcare professionals and is considered a professional responsibility.  There are legal requirements for manufacturers to report problems with their healthcare products to the MHRA.

Report suspected side effects to medicines, vaccines, e-cigarettes, medical device incidents, defective or falsified (fake) products to the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency to ensure safe and effective use.

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