Is Ebenezer Scrooge Running UK Pharmacovigilance?

(with acknowledgments to Charles Dickens)

As the name implies, pharmacovigilance is the observation and monitoring of possible harms from exposure to a variety of pharmaceuticals, biologics and devices: from drugs to vaccines and antibodies, devices and e-cigarettes.

The aim is to observe and detect abnormalities against a baseline of reactions, say fever, post-exposure to product X and then not…