Published: 6 November 2023
Safety Information
#MedSafetyWeek 2023
This year we celebrate the eighth annual #MedSafetyWeek. The Medicines Safety Week runs from 6 to 12 November 2023 with the goal to encourage everyone to report suspected side effects of medicines.
This year’s global campaign involves 95 regulators and other organisations from 85 countries, including New Zealand, and focuses on the key role of every healthcare professional, patient, and carer who reports a suspected side effect and contributes to using medicines safely.
Read the media statement. Help make medicines better for everyone by reporting suspected side effects.
Watch out for our tweets, join the conversation, and help us spread the word #MedSafetyWeek.
All medicines may cause side effects.
Medsafe/Centre for Adverse Reactions Monitoring (CARM) monitor the safety of medicines to protect patients. Your suspected side effect reports are crucial to support #PatientSafety
Submit a report pophealth.my.site.com/carmreportnz/s/.
#MedSafetyWeek
Having trouble sleeping after taking a medicine?
If you experience this or any unexpected side effects after taking a medicine, talk to a healthcare professional and #ReportSideEffects to Medsafe/Centre for Adverse Reactions Monitoring (CARM) pophealth.my.site.com/carmreportnz/s/.
#MedSafetyWeek
If you're concerned about a suspected side effect from a medicine, remember to:
- Talk to your healthcare professional
- Check the consumer medicine information
- Report what happened
Report side effects pophealth.my.site.com/carmreportnz/s/.
#MedSafetyWeek
As #MedSafetyWeek concludes, the safety of medicines and patients everywhere remains a top priority
If you think you’ve experienced a side effect, talk to a healthcare professional and remember to #ReportSideEffects to Medsafe/Centre for Adverse Reactions Monitoring (CARM) pophealth.my.site.com/carmreportnz/s/.
#MedSafetyWeek
#MedSafetyWeek 2022
From 7 to 13 November 2022, medicine regulators and their stakeholders from 81 countries came together to encourage everyone to report suspected side effects of medicines. This year's campaign focuses on the key role of every healthcare professional, patient, and carer who reports a suspected side effect and contributes to using medicines safely.
Read the media statement. Help make medicines better for everyone by reporting suspected side effects.
Did you watch out for our tweets, join the conversation, and help us spread the word #MedSafetyWeek.
#MedSafetyWeek 2021
From 1 to 7 November 2021, 64 medicine regulators and their stakeholders across the world got together to ecourage the reporting of suspected side effects following vaccination.
Read the Media Statement. Help make vaccines better for everyone by reporting suspected side effects.
Did you watch out for our tweets, join the conversation, and help us spread the word #MedSafetyWeek.
#MedSafetyWeek 2020
From 2 to 8 November 2020, 75 medicine regulators and their stakeholders across the world took part in a social media campaign to raise awareness about the importance of reporting suspected side effects from medicines.
The theme for 2020 was 'every report counts' and can help others in future. This #MedSafetyWeek patients and carers, as well as healthcare professionals and their organisations are called upon to report side effects from medicines and are advised not to wait for someone else to report their suspicions.
Read the media statement 'Every report counts' - a call to healthcare professionals and the public to report suspected side effects this #MedSafetyWeek: 2-8 November 2020.
Did you watch out for our tweets, join the conversation, and help us spread the word #MedSafetyWeek?
#MedSafetyWeek 2019
From 25 to 29 November 2019, 57 medicine regulators across the world took part in a social media campaign to raise awareness of medicine side effects and the importance of reporting them.
The theme for 2019 was polypharmacy. Reporting side effects helps protect patients when taking multiple medicines.
Read the media statement Taking multiple medicines? Support the health care system by reporting suspected side effects this #MedSafetyWeek.
Did you watch out for our tweets, join the conversation, or help us spread the word #MedSafetyWeek?
Adverse Drug Reaction Reporting Awareness Week 2018
From 19 to 23 November, 32 medicines regulators around the globe joined forces to encourage reporting side effects to medicines in children and pregnancy.
The theme for 2018 was to help make medicines safer by reporting suspected side effects in children and during pregnancy.
Read the media statement 'Help make medicines safer: report suspected side effects in children and during pregnancy'.
Did you watch out for our tweets, join the conversation, or help us spread the word? #medsafetyweek
Adverse Drug Reaction Reporting Awareness Week 2017
The Uppsala Monitoring Centre in Sweden teamed up with medicine regulatory authorities in 27 countries to launch a social media awareness campaign on the importance of reporting adverse drug reactions.
Read more abouth this social media campaign
Thank you to the 'Uppsala Monitoring Centre, Uppsala Reports 78' for this article.
