What percentage of GPs and hospital-based doctors use the yellow card reporting system for adverse reactions in relation to medication for …

The Yellow Card Scheme underpins drug safety monitoring in the UK. Reports of suspected adverse drug reactions are submitted to the Committee on Safety of Medicines and the Medicines Control Agency (MCA), jointly responsible for running the scheme.The MCA advise that although it is possible to calculate the number of reports received for drugs indicated for use in mental health problems, it is not readily possible to derive from this information a meaningful estimate of the percentage of doctors submitting such reports. This is because the level of reporting is variable and health care professionals other than doctors may have submitted a proportion of the reports. The scheme invites reports from all doctors, regardless of speciality, dentists, pharmacists and, in some circumstances, nurses. Information about the Yellow Card Scheme can be found on the MCA's website at: www.mca.gov.uk.