Useful Internet Links

Medicines Compendium
Access to Summaries of Product Characteristics & patient information leaflets
http://www.medicines.org.uk/

National Electronic Library for Health
Portal to several health-related sites, including Cochrane Library, Clinical Evidence, & Drug and Therapeutics Bulletin.
http://www.nelh.nhs.uk/

Scottish Intercollegiate Guidelines Network (SIGN)
http://www.sign.ac.uk/

National Prescribing Centre
Access to MeReC bulletins and other NPC publications
http://www.npc.co.uk/

Cochrane Library
Provides high quality evidence of healthcare interventions in the form of systematic reviews and abstracts of quality-assessed references.
http://www.nelh.nhs.uk/cochrane.asp

Clinical Evidence
Clinical Evidence summarises the current state of knowledge and uncertainty about the prevention and treatment of clinical conditions. It describes the best available evidence from systematic reviews and RCTs, and if there is no good evidence it says so.
http://www.nelh.nhs.uk/clinical_evidence.asp

MTRAC
Midland Therapeutic Review and Advisory Committee reviews pharmaceutical products for primary care, to encourage their optimum introduction.
http://www.keele.ac.uk/depts/mm/MTRAC/