Medicines Safety Week

The annual #MedSafetyWeek campaign takes place from 3 to 9 November 2025. This year’s campaign theme is ‘we can all help make medicines safer'. The campaign is a call to action to improve patient safety.

This is an international campaign supported in the UK by the MHRA. During the annual #MedSafetyWeek, Uppsala Monitoring Centre teams up with medicines regulators, national pharmacovigilance centres, and international organisations around the world to encourage reporting of side effects.

In the UK, we are focusing on highlighting the importance of reporting suspected problems from all healthcare products to the Yellow Card scheme, no matter who you are. We are seeking your support to raise awareness of the scheme to increase awareness and reporting from the general public.  

You can report suspected adverse drug reactions to any medicine (including blood products, vaccines and herbal/homeopathic medicines), as well as from other healthcare products including medical device incidents, defective and falsified (fake) products, and safety concerns with e-cigarettes/vapes and their refill containers (e-liquids).

This year we’re celebrating 10 years of #MedSafetyWeek and working together with regulators from 117 countries and 131 organisations participating across the globe in the campaign.