Information for mymedreview.nhs.uk users

About the mymedreview.nhs.uk website

The mymedreview.nhs.uk website is made available as part of the BRISMED Toolkit.

The BRISMED Toolkit has been made available to your practice as part of a clinical trial funded by National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Health Service and Delivery Programme (grant funding NIHR ref. 154205). The aim of the trial is to evaluate the effectiveness and acceptability of the Bristol Medication Review (BRISMED) Toolkit in comparison with usual general practice care. The trial is being sponsored by the University of Bristol and has been reviewed and approved by the West of Scotland Research Ethics Committee 1 and Health Research Authority (ref 24/WS/0031).

Your rights as a mymedreview.nhs.uk user

When you visit mymedreview.nhs.uk, you will be able to read some information about medication reviews. You will also have the opportunity to record some notes about what you might like to discuss at a medication review.

The information entered into those boxes can be stored on your device if you have allowed cookies on your phone or laptop. The information you enter will be private to you and only stored on your device.

Cookies

We use Cookies on the mymedreview website (i.e. https://mymedreview.nhs.uk)

Cookies are little files stored on your computer to allow the mymedreview website to work.

We do not store sensitive personal information, such as mailing addresses or passwords, in the Cookies.

We do not share these Cookies with any third parties, and we do not use any “third party” cookies (such as Google).

Our cookies allow the private storage of the information you enter in the notes boxes, and it is stored on your device. The information can only be accessed on your device. No one, including the BRISMED research team and your GP practice, can view the information stored on your device.

If you have disabled Cookies, you can still access the mymedreview site, but any notes you make will not be saved on your device for future reference.

If you would like to clear the information that you have added into the notes sections, you can use the ‘Clear my data’ button at the bottom of the page.

Purpose: These Cookies allow the storage of your notes on your personal device. The purpose of these cookies is to provide the opportunity to makes notes in advance of a medication review and to have those notes saved in a safe, private, and secure manner.