Campaign material

The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) is committed to improving patient safety and strategically runs regular specific public health campaigns to raise awareness of patient safety in healthcare products and the importance of reporting to the Yellow Card scheme. 

In addition to the general resources you can use throughout the year, please join us in supporting and sharing about these patient safety awareness raising campaigns. This means that at certain times of the year or based on a particular product or subject tere are specific resources you can use to promote the event or product.

We currently have campaign materials for:

Annual awareness raising days

• World Patient Safety day - 17 September
• #MedSafety Week - 1st full week in November

Medical products

• #FakeMeds - how to spot and avoid fake medical products while shopping online
• COVID-19 vaccine - reporting side effects

Social media hashtags:

• #MHRAYellowCard
• #everyreportcounts
• #patientsafety 

World Patient Safety Day - 17 September

Held on 17 September it is one of the World Health Organisation’s (WHO) global health days. The MHRA supports this day through various communications and partners can use our general Yellow Card scheme resources to support their communications. 

#MedSafetyWeek - November

This global annual campaign brings together national medicines regulators and pharmacovigilance centres to raise awareness of adverse drug reactions and the reporting methods. Usually held in November, each year there is a different focus or theme to encourage the reporting of suspected side effects to medicines. 

New tailored resources are produced annually to support the campaign and are made available to download from this page. 

#FakeMeds campaign

The #FakeMeds campaign aims to provide quick and easy tools to help the public spot and avoid fake medical products when shopping online. With the increased health risk of fake healthcare products on the market today we can all play our part in sharing how to be safer when buying online. 

The campaign also provides essential advice on reporting suspected fake products through the Yellow Card scheme. There are downloadable resources you can use to spread the word. 

Learn more about the campaign on the dedicated #FakeMeds microsite.

Covid-19 vaccine reporting campaign

This public health campaign was launched during the coronavirus pandemic. 

Downloadable resources raise awareness on how to report a suspected side effect of the Covid-19 vaccine to the MHRA Yellow Card scheme on this Coronavirus Yellow Card reporting website.