What to report to the Yellow Card scheme

The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) runs the Yellow Card scheme, which collects and monitors information on suspected safety concerns involving healthcare products, like a side effect with a medicine or an adverse medical device incident.

The scheme relies on voluntary reporting of problems to a healthcare product by the public (including patients, parents and carer givers) as well as from healthcare professionals.

You can report safety issues around any healthcare product to the Yellow Card scheme. This can include side effects, defective products (not of an acceptable quality), and falsified or fake healthcare products.

‘Healthcare products’ include:

• medicines

• vaccines

• medical devices (including software, apps and artificial intelligence)

• blood products 

• e-cigarettes (also known as vapes) including their refill containers (e-liquids)

We are unable to provide medical advice. Speak to your doctor, pharmacist or call NHS 111 if you are worried about your health.