People expect and are entitled to good quality information about their medicines,
whether prescribed or bought over the counter. Informed decision-making by
patients and the public about medicines is keenly promoted by the Department of
Health, and is an issue with which healthcare professionals are increasingly
becoming familiar. The quantity of medicines information available to today’s
patients and carers is not in doubt; its quality very often has been. The result has
been, at best, confusing for medicine users and, at worst, downright dangerous