Pharmacy

• British Pharmaceutical Students’ Association

  Loads of resources including e-learning modules. Some features require free registration.

• British Pharmacological Society

  Useful resources from the BPS, a global community of people interested in advancing research and application of pharmacology.

• DrugWise

  Dedicated to providing evidence-based information on addictive substances, including a section on prescription and over-the-counter drugs.

• eMC (electronic Medicines Compendium)

  Source of up to date information on all drugs legally used in the UK. Includes SPCs (Summaries of Product Charactestistics), PILs (Patient Information Leaflets) and so on. [NOTE: if referencing material from eMC, the author is almost certainly not eMC - it's probably the company who manufacture the drug.]

• Guide to Pharmacology

  Initially developed by the British Pharmacological Society and IUPHAR, this is a great source for pharmacology information. Its key areas are quantitative data on drug targets, prescription medicines and other drugs.

• IUPHAR Pharmacology Education Project

  High-quality curated learning objects for topics in pharmacology, this is particularly helpful for level 4 and 5 study.

• Pharmaceutical Services Negotiating Committee

  Organisation representing English NHS community pharmacies.

• The Royal Society of Chemistry

  Website contains lots of useful resources across a wide range of topics, including links to a variety of tools, including:

  • Chemspider (for information on chemical structures)
  • CCDC (for crystallography)
  • LearnChemistry (resources for teachers and students at all levels)

   

• Chemical Entities of Biological Interest

  A dictionary of molecular entities focused on "small" chemical compounds.

• ChEMBL

• A useful resource for drug discovery, covering drug-like small molecules.

• Chemical Safety Library

  Provided by the American Chemical Society, this site is intended to alert scientists and researchers to experiments which may be hazardous.

You can find statistics on all sorts of websites, but these are likely to be the most reliable sources.

• Department of Health and Social Care Statistics


• NHS Digital


• Office for National Statistics


• Public Health Profiles


• WHO Global Health Observatory

These sites are often your best bets when starting a search for web-based information.

• Royal Pharmaceutical Society

  The professional body for pharmacy in the UK.

• Clinical Knowledge Summaries (from NICE)

  An excellent source of summarised information about health conditions and the evidence base relating to their treatment and management.

• Department of Health and Social Care

  The source for almost all of the overarching policy information.

• Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency

  The official agency for regulating medicines etc. in the UK.

• UK Government Web Archive

  This site can be used to identify material which is no longer housed on the current government website.

• European Medicines Agency

  EU body with responsibility for monitoring and evaluation of medicines.