Dietary advice tips
Fact sheets
Practice checklists

ADR reports Yellow Card Scheme

HIV/AIDS network for pharmacists

Department of Health sites

BBC medical notes

NHS National electronic Library for Health

Talking products (including Talking labels)

X-PIL service (www.xpil.medicines.org.uk)
Patient information leaflets (PILs) in large print, braille or audio compact disk

WHO fact sheets

Medicines information

BestTreatments www.besttreatments.co.uk
Information (from the BMJ) for patients and the public on medical problems

Information for patients www.equip.nhs.uk (EQUIP)

Medicines Complete drug and healthcare references

Motoring and medicines Q&A booklet

NHS Dictionary of Medicine and Devices dm+d

www.medicines.org.uk www.medicines.org.uk

MiDatabank www.midatabank.com

NOAH compendium (data sheets for animal medicines)

Education resources

Education page
Learning styles
Virtual learning environments

Clinical trials

UK pharmaceutical industry clinical trials online

Clinical trials in Scotland

· US clinical trials registry
· Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America clinical study results

· AstraZeneca

· GlaxoSmithKline

· Lilly

· Organon

· Roche

ABPI: Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry

News and topical links

The print copies of The Pharmaceutical Journal and Hospital Pharmacist contain links in their news and articles pages. Instead of having long and complex links that are easy to mistype, the news and articles list standard pages on PJ Online (see below).

Select the appropriate issue to list the items with the corresponding internet links

• Pharmaceutical Journal (www.pjonline.com/pjlinks)
• Hospital Pharmacist (www.pjonline.com/hplinks)
• Retail Round-up (www.pjonline.com/rrlinks)

Linking to PJ Online

Shortcuts to parts of PJ Online

Journals

A selection of over 150 online journals, including BMJ, JAMA, New England Journal of Medicine and The Lancet. Access (free or subscription) is also summarised

Organisations and other links

Contact details for organisations that may help with pharmacists' queries

Pharmaceutical companies

World Pharmaceutical societies

Royal Pharmaceutical Society
• websites
• online library catalogue

Personal experiences of health and illness www.dipex.org

Specific conditions & rare disorders

Swallowing difficulties
· www.swallowingdifficulties.com
· www.rosemontpharma.com

Weblogs & forums (discussions)

Locum Voice

Pharmacy discussion forum

Pharmacist Prescribing forum

NPA Exchange (forum for primary care chief pharmacists in Scotland)