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%).