FOI release

Yellow Card Submissions related to Electronic Prescribing and Medicines Administration Systems

Case reference FOI2025/01021

Received 18 September 2025

Published 24 October 2025

Request

Under the Freedom of Information Act 2000, I would like to request the following information held by the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency, covering the period from 1 January 2023 to the present: 1. The total number of reports to the Yellow Card system (broken down by year) relating to Electronic Prescribing and Medicines Administration Systems (following the January 2023 Drug Safety Update: Electronic Prescribing and Medicines Administration Systems: report adverse incidents on a Yellow Card) 2. Of these reports, the total number of (1) serious reports (2) reports with a fatal outcome 3. A breakdown of these reports by age 4. Any information you are able to provide around the type of adverse events that were reported in relation to these systems.

Response

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Documents

• FOI2025_01021 (redacted).pdf (1.1 MB)

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