The best-known UK pharmacy web-site is Pharmweb, started by Dr Antony D'Emanuele and hosted by the University of Manchester. It is world-renowned and has numerous mirror sites.

Organisations

Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain, the governing body of all pharmacists practising in this country.

Department of Health

National Pharmaceutical Association

Pharmweb

Medicines Control Agency

Pharmaceutical Companies

Astra Pharmaceuticals

Baker Norton

Baxter International

Bristol-Myers Squibb

Glaxo Wellcome

Hoechst

Eli Lilly and Company

Novartis

Pharmacia & Upjohn

Pfizer

Roche

Rhone-Poulenc Rorer

Searle

Zeneca

Other pharmaceutical companies with web sites can be found on Pharmweb Yellow Pages.

Journals

The Pharmaceutical Journal

British Medical Journal

The Lancet

Journal of the American Medical Association, JAMA

Pharmaceutical Press

Bandolier - Evidence-based health care

Information for Patients

Patient Information Leaflets

Hospital Pharmacy Sites

Kettering General Hospital

NHS North West

Northampton General Hospital

St James's Hospital Pharmacy

Hospitalweb

Clinical Governance

The new buzz phrase in the NHS at the moment is "Clinical Governance", designed to produce a culture in which clinical excellence can be spread throughout the NHS, so that patients can receive equally good, evidence-based treatment wherever they live in the country. In support of this is a new Special Health Authority, the National Institute of Clinical Excellence (NICE): "It will advise on best practice in the use of existing treatment options, appraise new health interventions, and advise the NHS on how they can be implemented and how best these might fit alongside existing treatments".

Link Sites

An excellent site with many links to health-related Web pages is NMAP, "a gateway to evaluated, quality Internet resources in Nursing, Midwifery and Allied Health Professions, aimed at students, researchers, academics and practitioners".