Provision of Licence for TICTAC Visual Drug Identification for the National Poisons Information Serv

Descriptions

The TICTAC visual drug identification system is a database and software system that enables users to instantly identify over 34 921 solid dose medicines and drugs, based on physical characteristics. TICTAC provides images, product name, active ingredients, size, weight, street names, legal status, manufacturer, audio clip of correct pronunciation and for licensed medicines, dose, license number, DM+D AMP code and links to the SPC. The licence covers a single user within each of the following 4 National Poisons Information Service (NPIS) centres which include (1) Llandough Hospital, NPIS (Cardiff Centre) (2) City Hospital NHS Trust, NPIS (3) NPIS Edinburgh (Scottish Poisons Information Bureau) NPIS Edinburgh and (4) NIPS (Newcastle), Regional Drug and Therapeutics Centre NPIS. The duration of the contract will be for 3 years.