Welcome to Yellow Card Centre Wales
Yellow Card Centre Wales (formerly named CSM Wales) is one of five regional adverse drug reaction monitoring centres, acting on behalf of the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency.
YCC Wales has a vital educational and communicating role to encourage suspected adverse reaction reporting via the Yellow Card Scheme to both patients and local health professionals in Wales.
Staff at YCC Wales are available to advise on Yellow Card reporting and offer education and training sessions about suspected adverse drug reactions to all health professionals and patient groups. These can range from small informal meetings to formal lectures and we can tailor these sessions to cover:-
- How to recognise a suspected Adverse Drug Reaction (ADR)
- The importance of reporting
- What to report on a Yellow Card
- The challenge of ADRs in Wales
- How Yellow Card Information is used
- Avoiding ADRs and interactions
- Safe and effective prescribing
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CSM Wales has been renamed Yellow Card Centre Wales (YCC Wales)
Following the recommendations of the Report of an Independent Review of Access to the Yellow Card Scheme our name has now changed to Yellow Card Centre Wales. This coincided with the Committee on Safety of Medicines (CSM) being replaced with the Commission on Human Medicines (CHM) and the new Sentinel IT system and yellow card processing arrangements at the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA).
Since 31 May 2006 Yellow Cards with the CSM Wales address have been automatically redirected to a central MHRA address and receipt of all Yellow Cards will now be acknowledged by the MHRA in London. If further information is required concerning a reported adverse reaction the MHRA will ask YCC Wales to obtain it from the reporter.
In the future YCC Wales will concentrate on its vital educational and communicating role to encourage suspected adverse reaction reporting amongst local health professionals.