Who uses the service?

n 2016/17 UKTIS provided information on pregnancy exposure in response to over 1,790,000 requests.

These comprised:

• 1,800 telephone enquiries
• 43,500 TOXBASE monograph downloads
• 300,000 monograph summaries downloaded by users around the globe from www.uktis.org
• 1,445,000 bumps patient information leaflet views on www.medicinesinpregnancy.org

97% of users agreed or strongly agreed that they were highly satisfied with the service they received from UKTIS.

GPs (34%) and hospital pharmacists (30%) were still our most frequent callers, followed by consultants (15%), community pharmacists (9%), nurses (4%) and midwives (2%).