Yellow Card - MHRA

Name: Yellow Card - MHRA
Rating: 2.2 (53 reviews)
Author: MHRA

Medical

Free · Designed for iPad

53 Ratings
Ages

4+
Years
Category

Medical
Developer

MHRA
Language

EN
English
Size

31.9
MB

The Yellow Card Scheme is the UK system run by the MHRA* for collecting and monitoring information on suspected adverse reactions to all medicines including vaccines, blood factors and immunoglobulins, herbal medicines and homeopathic remedies, and all medical devices available on the UK market. The Yellow Card app has been developed for medicines and allows users to: > Report a suspected side effect to a medicine (including vaccines, herbal products and homeopathic remedies) > Track new safety information published by the MHRA about medicines > Create a watchlist for alerts to medicines of interest to you > View numbers of reports received by the MHRA to medicines and vaccines Suspected problems or incidents involving medical devices, defective medicines, suspected counterfeits or fake medicines can also be reported to the MHRA via the Yellow Card website at http://www.mhra.gov.uk/yellowcard. All reports received through the app or website can help the MHRA identify potential new concerns about a medicine or medical device and act as an early warning for further investigation. The MHRA will review the product if necessary, and take action to minimise risk and maximise benefit to the patients. *The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) is the executive Agency of the Department of Health and Social Care; the MHRA protects and promotes public health and patient safety by ensuring that medicines, healthcare products and medical equipment are used safely and meet appropriate standards of safety, quality, performance and effectiveness.

Ratings & Reviews

2.2

out of 5

53 Ratings

Hangs before Submit
22/12/2024

Billy_
Tried this app to report something simple - but the app hangs when filling in the text of the description - screen goes grey all over - but text still editable. It is saved however in pending and I eventually sent it. This nerds sorting whatever is causing it to happen. Poor usability reports go back 3 years at least so not convinced it’s ever going to get fixed. At least it worked in the end. The website is apparently even more problematic - although that report is now old.
Hangs before Submit
22/12/2024

Billy_

Tried this app to report something simple - but the app hangs when filling in the text of the description - screen goes grey all over - but text still editable. It is saved however in pending and I eventually sent it. This nerds sorting whatever is causing it to happen. Poor usability reports go back 3 years at least so not convinced it’s ever going to get fixed. At least it worked in the end. The website is apparently even more problematic - although that report is now old.
Report process takes far too long
11/08/2021

Loubylou101
This app is a great idea and really forces you to check in with yourself after having the Covid vaccine. However, the process of reporting side effects takes forever and requires far too much info. Should I really need to select whether my flu-like symptoms caused death?! Submitting each individual symptom separately is ridiculously time-consuming, especially when they might last for several weeks. I can imagine that many people give up after a few days and delete the app.Perhaps a ‘how do you feel today’ section tailored for vaccine side effects would be quicker and easier to use.
Report process takes far too long
11/08/2021

Loubylou101

This app is a great idea and really forces you to check in with yourself after having the Covid vaccine. However, the process of reporting side effects takes forever and requires far too much info. Should I really need to select whether my flu-like symptoms caused death?! Submitting each individual symptom separately is ridiculously time-consuming, especially when they might last for several weeks. I can imagine that many people give up after a few days and delete the app.Perhaps a ‘how do you feel today’ section tailored for vaccine side effects would be quicker and easier to use.
Oxford vaccine
11/03/2021

granniedel
Had my vaccine on 12 feb felt fine for 48hrs got up on 3rd day and felt headachey hot and cold shivery and itched from head to foot and horrendous joint pain so bad I could cry and developed a red blotch on my left bust 3weeks later still feeling the same still got mark on bust made a appointment at DRs he’s arranged for me to have blood test and X-ray have to wait 2weeks to have blood test and wait for appointment at hospital and all he could say do you think it just a coincidence I don’t know I just know I don’t feel well
Oxford vaccine
11/03/2021

granniedel

Had my vaccine on 12 feb felt fine for 48hrs got up on 3rd day and felt headachey hot and cold shivery and itched from head to foot and horrendous joint pain so bad I could cry and developed a red blotch on my left bust 3weeks later still feeling the same still got mark on bust made a appointment at DRs he’s arranged for me to have blood test and X-ray have to wait 2weeks to have blood test and wait for appointment at hospital and all he could say do you think it just a coincidence I don’t know I just know I don’t feel well
Takes all the side effect details but won’t allow saving/submitting
8 Oct

davey-wavey
Firstly, this app is pretty much unusable as is. There isn’t much point in a patient using it.When I went to report a side effect, it allowed me to get all the way through to the written side effects, but did not allow me to save the report, leading to frustration.Some of the fields, e.g. date stopped taking, if you click on it by accident, you MUST enter a date when you stopped taking the medication, even if you are still taking it. So although this is done for data quality purposes, it doesn’t give an accurate version of the truth.
Takes all the side effect details but won’t allow saving/submitting
8 Oct

davey-wavey

Firstly, this app is pretty much unusable as is. There isn’t much point in a patient using it.When I went to report a side effect, it allowed me to get all the way through to the written side effects, but did not allow me to save the report, leading to frustration.Some of the fields, e.g. date stopped taking, if you click on it by accident, you MUST enter a date when you stopped taking the medication, even if you are still taking it. So although this is done for data quality purposes, it doesn’t give an accurate version of the truth.

This update supports new features to provide smarter, reactive reporting forms so that we can ask specific questions related to your report based on the information you provide. The update also enables requests for further information from the MHRA to be displayed within the app and for your responses to be sent back via the app. Improvements to general performance and bug fixes have also been released as part of this update.

Version 24.1.5

01/03/2023

Data Linked to You

The following data may be collected and linked to your identity:
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The following data may be collected but it is not linked to your identity:
- Contact Info
- Usage Data
- Diagnostics