Pro-File is a tool designed to help NHS pharmacy staff to identify and source unlicensed “special” medicinal products needed to treat individual NHS patients whose clinical needs can’t be met by use of (a) licensed medicine(s), and to obtain the most appropriate products from the most appropriate sources. We hope the new software will make it quicker and easier for users to find the information they need and for manufacturers to manage their inventories. Apart from improved page format and layout, the main difference users will see is that we have added a "basic" alphabetical search function which allows you to open a list of all products with names starting with the chosen letter of the alphabet. If you prefer to carry on using the original search functions, choose "advanced search" where you can also now filter your results by product form, route or strength. For futher help please click on the "help" tab at the right of the blue bar at the top of your screen. You can also contact us by clicking on the "feedback" link under the "help" tab.

Users of Internet Explorer v.8 (IE 8) should note that some pages won't display properly unless they click on the compatability icon in the IE toolbar immediately to the right of the address window and to the left of the "refresh" icon 

All products to which a BP monograph applies are now highlighted

Menthol-containing products are now listed under levomenthol

The information contained in this website is supplied by NHS pharmacy staff on the strict understanding that it is provided solely for the use of other NHS pharmacy staff to support decision making about obtaining unlicensed medicines for the treatment of NHS patients. No information obtained from this database may be circulated outside the NHS without the written permission of the manufacturer(s) or supplier(s) concerned.

The attention of all pharmacy staff is drawn to the restrictions on the use of unlicensed medicines imposed under the Medicines Act 1964 and described fully in MHRA Guidance Note 14 (revised January 2008), “The supply of unlicensed relevant medicinal products for individual patients”. Before seeking to source a “special” it is the responsibility of pharmacists to satisfy themselves that the clinical needs of the patient(s) concerned can be adequately met only by the use of a unlicensed medicine in preference to use of a licensed medicine