RELIS (Regionale legemiddelinformasjonssentre - 'Regional Medicines Information Centres') is a publicly funded information service about medical drugs for health professionals in Norway. RELIS was established to aid rational and proper medicines use through producer-independent drug information to health professionals. RELIS started its service at two centres in 1995, and has since 2001 been established at university hospitals in all four health regions of Norway. All the centres are tied to the clinical pharmacology departments at the university hospitals. RELIS has a question-answer service which aids health professionals in matters of medical drugs, often specific to an individual patient. The target group and users of the service is primarily medical doctors, but also pharmacists, dentists, nurses and midwives use the service.
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Norway, officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic country in Northern Europe whose territory comprises the western and northernmost portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula; the remote island of Jan Mayen and the archipelago of Svalbard are also part of the Kingdom of Norway. The Antarctic Peter I Island and the sub-Antarctic Bouvet Island are dependent territories and thus not considered part of the kingdom. Norway also lays claim to a section of Antarctica known as Queen Maud Land.
RELIS is also responsible for an information service aided at pregnant and breastfeeding women called Trygg Mammamedisin ('Safe Mommy Medicine'). This service is accessible through its own website, and also by phone. It is open to the public and is confidential and free of charge.
Trygg mammamedisin is a public service in Norway which gives individual advice about medical drugs to pregnant and breastfeeding women. The service is web-based, and is funded by the Ministry of Health and Care Services. Trygg mammamedisin is managed by RELIS - Regional Drug Information Centres. These centres are a publicly funded service for health professionals, offering producer-indepedendent information about medical drugs. The answers provided in Trygg mammamedisin are generated by RELIS employees, who are all certified pharmacists or medical doctors working at the University Hospital of North Norway, Haukeland University Hospital, St. Olav's University Hospital and Oslo University Hospital.
Another important role for RELIS is pharmacovigilance. RELIS receives adverse side effect alerts submitted by health professionals, and RELIS then judges the course and causalities of each case, and sends a written reply to the person who submitted the message. The adverse side effect reports are then registered in a national adverse side effect database, in close cooperation with the Norwegian Medicines Agency. RELIS is financed by the Ministry of Health and Care Services.
The Norwegian Medicines Agency is the national, regulatory authority for new and existing medicines and the supply chain. The Agency is responsible for supervising the production, trials and marketing of medicines. It approves medicines and monitors their use, and ensures cost-efficient, effective and well-documented use of medicines. The inspectorate also supervises the supply-chain and regulates prices and trade conditions for pharmacies.
The Royal Norwegian Ministry of Health and Care Services is a Norwegian government ministry in charge of health policy, public health, health care services and health legislation in Norway.
External links
www.relis.no - RELIS' home page for health professionals (Norwegian)
www.tryggmammamedisin.no - RELIS' information service for pregnant and breast feeding women (Norwegian)
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