by Nick Hunt, Daily Sceptic:

We already know that MHRA does not have a procedure for following up Yellow Card reports, even just the fatal and serious ones or those involving children or pregnancy. Nor does it know how many it has actually followed up to obtain any missing information one would think was critical to investigating reported deaths and serious side-effects of medicines – information like the age of the subject, his or her medical records, time between administration and death or injury, medicine batch data and so on, which are missing from many Yellow Card reports. No, it has no idea.