BNF Publications

This is a great reference of not just drugs but also medical devices, borderline substances and wound care. The information is presented in clear, colourful ways that makes it easy to read and quick to find. There a some great extra features too such as the custom-built drug interaction section e.g. You can select more than one drug to check compatibility rather than just scrolling through a massive list of one selected drug. Overall a very useful, well laid out and extensive medical resource.

As a pharmacist I am using the app on everyday basis and I cannot complain. Would be great on top of current content get a little bit of inspiration from apps made by Mediately which provide more tools and also look at American Medscape. Also any correlation with NICE guidelines or some interesting articles, would be nice to have everything integrated and merged within one app. But as said. Compared to paper BNF this works faster and is much more practical to use.

It seems that you are now unable to search reliably for branded products. It seems that you can find some and not others. For example if you search ‘Madopar’ you get nothing, same with Eldepryl. But if you type in Sinemet, then it comes up with co-careldopa. Can it not be consistent so you can search any product? When the search works it is a really quick and easy way of finding the entry for the drug and the content is easy to read and understand, really useful in practice - just wish the search worked for all.

This app is great, as a student nurse it is really helpful for learning about medications, however, I wish there was a “favourites” option that I can bookmark drugs I’ve come across before, and go home and really read up on them. At the moment I write it down on paper, that has a tendency to get lost. And hopefully I’ll be able to sort the medication list ‘A-Z’/ ‘recently added’ in favourites, that would be helpful.

App works quickly and is useful. However no easy way to scroll through all medicines for a given drug - sometimes there are 10's of products to look through until you find the one you want. No link from drug back to general information on the drug class. At least two steps to switch between BNF and BNFc. Searching by brand name brings up the generic drug monograph. You still have to scroll through the medicines to find the product you want.