Published: 3 November 2025
Safety Information
#MedSafetyWeek 2025
This year we celebrate the tenth annual #MedSafetyWeek. The Medicines Safety Week runs from 3 to 9 November 2025 with the goal to encourage everyone to report suspected side effects of medicines.
117 countries will join forces to help spread the word about the importance of reporting suspected side effects from medicines.
Whether you're a patient or a healthcare professional, we all have the power to help improve the safe use of medicines.
Be a #MedSafetyHero and report suspected side effects to Medsafe/CARM.
Read the media statement.
We all have the power to be a #MedSafetyHero.
Reporting suspected side effects helps regulatory agencies like Medsafe understand more about the safety profile of medicines, which can improve the safe use of medicines.
If you think you’ve had a side effect to a medicine, talk to your healthcare professional and then submit a report to Medsafe/CARM.
Learn more about side effects.
#MedSafetyWeek 2024
From 4 to 11 November 92 organisations across 86 countries come together to encourage everyone to report suspected side effects to medicines. This year’s theme centres on the importance of using medicines as directed to prevent side effects, and to report side effects when they do occur.
#MedSafetyWeek 2023
From 6 to 12 November 2023, medicine regulators and their stakeholders from 81 countries will come together to encourage everyone to report suspected side effects of medicines. This year's campaign focuses on the key role of every healthcare professional, patient, and carer who reports a suspected side effect and contributes to using medicines safely.
#MedSafetyWeek 2022
From 7 to 13 November 2022, medicines regulators from 81 countries focus on the key role of every healthcare professional, patient, and carer who reports a suspected side effect and contributes to using medicines safely.
#MedSafetyWeek 2021
From 1 to 7 November 2021, 64 medicine regulators and their stakeholders across the world are getting together to ecourage the reporting of suspected side effects following vaccination.
Read the Media Statement. Help make vaccines better for everyone by reporting suspected side effects.
Watch out for our tweets, join the conversation, and help us spread the word #MedSafetyWeek.
#MedSafetyWeek 2020
From 2 to 8 November 2020, 75 medicine regulators and their stakeholders across the world are taking part in a social media campaign to raise awareness about the importance of reporting suspected side effects from medicines.
The theme for 2020 is 'every report counts' and can help others in future. This #MedSafetyWeek patients and carers, as well as healthcare professionals and their organisations are called upon to report side effects from medicines and are advised not to wait for someone else to report their suspicions.
Read the media statement 'Every report counts' - a call to healthcare professionals and the public to report suspected side effects this #MedSafetyWeek: 2-8 November 2020.
Did you watch out for our tweets, join the conversation, and help us spread the word #MedSafetyWeek?
#MedSafetyWeek 2019
From 25 to 29 November 2019, 57 medicine regulators across the world took part in a social media campaign to raise awareness of medicine side effects and the importance of reporting them.
The theme for 2019 was polypharmacy. Reporting side effects helps protect patients when taking multiple medicines.
Read the media statement Taking multiple medicines? Support the health care system by reporting suspected side effects this #MedSafetyWeek.
Did you watch out for our tweets, join the conversation, or help us spread the word #MedSafetyWeek?
Adverse Drug Reaction Reporting Awareness Week 2018
From 19 to 23 November, 32 medicines regulators around the globe joined forces to encourage reporting side effects to medicines in children and pregnancy.
The theme for 2018 was to help make medicines safer by reporting suspected side effects in children and during pregnancy.
Read the media statement 'Help make medicines safer: report suspected side effects in children and during pregnancy'.
Did you watch out for our tweets, join the conversation, or help us spread the word? #medsafetyweek
Adverse Drug Reaction Reporting Awareness Week 2017
The Uppsala Monitoring Centre in Sweden teamed up with medicine regulatory authorities in 27 countries to launch a social media awareness campaign on the importance of reporting adverse drug reactions.
Read more abouth this social media campaign
Thank you to the 'Uppsala Monitoring Centre, Uppsala Reports 78' for this article.
