Pharmacovigilance

The ultimate purpose of UMCs work in pharmacovigilance is to support good decision-making regarding the benefits and risks of treatment options for patient taking medicines.

We focus our work in this area by:

• Screening and analysing international adverse reaction data; our aim is to detect, as early as possible, potential issues of importance for patients and public health in relation to the use and safety of medicines.
• Supporting effective communication of the most focussed, up-to-date scientific information.
• Providing tools for data entry, management, retrieval, reference and research.
• Education and training in setting up and running national pharmacovigilance programmes, as well as in using the UMC Tools.