Electronic Medicines Compendium (emc)

10,000+: Licensed medicinal products

300+: Pharmaceutical companies contributing product information

9,000+: Patient information leaflets

Updated: Monthly

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Customer use cases

Academia

Prepare students for professional practice.

Hospital and Healthcare

Provides detailed information on medicinal products.

Access ready-to-use patient information leaflets.

Pharmaceutical Industry

Efficiently and effectively answer medical information enquiries from professionals and patients.

Qualify and prepare manufacturer drug information.

emc is available to customers outside of the UK

Datapharm have granted Pharmaceutical Press a licence to sell emc to MedicinesComplete customers outside of the UK. If you are from the UK and wish to access emc we encourage you to contact Datapharm.

Features and benefits

With an unlimited number of searches through MedicinesComplete, health professionals and pharmaceutical industry professionals benefit from:

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Access to information on over 10,000 licensed medicinal products detailing how to prescribe and use a medicine correctly

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Over 9,000 patient Information Leaflets (PILs) ready to print or email to patients

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Links to BNF and BNF for Children for practical and independent treatment summaries and drug information

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Medicines under additional monitoring by European regulatory agencies are flagged with a black triangle, for quick identification

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Synonyms, drug and chemical identifiers, chemical formulae, structures and pharmacopeial standards

Option to sort or filter medicinal products by active ingredient, legal status, manufacturer and form

Latest knowledge updates

Our knowledge products are regularly updated online through MedicinesComplete

10th March 2026