X-PIL ensures that patient information leaflets (PILs) supplied with medicines are accessible to everyone, including those with sight problems.

X-PIL is a leading source of reliable and up-to-date information on UK medicines. The web site is managed by Datapharm Communications Limited. All the PILs on the web site are supplied and updated regularly by UK pharmaceutical companies.

All the PILs on the X-PIL web site can be viewed in different sizes and are designed for screen readers.

The Royal National Institute of Blind People (RNIB) Medicines Information Line can also provide PILs in a number of physical formats:

• Large / clear print
• Braille
• Audio CD

You can also listen to a PIL when you call the Medicines Information Line.

The RNIB Medicines Information Line is free to use and available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Please call them on 0800 198 5000.

X-PIL complements the electronic Medicines Compendium (eMC) web site. The eMC already has patient and prescribing information for thousands of medicines and is used widely by the public, doctors, pharmacists and nurses. Last year over 7 million documents were viewed on the eMC.

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