We are the authors of the standard text on minor illness, which is now in its third edition and has sold over 16,000 copies, and we provide clinical input to Clinical Knowledge Summaries / Prodigy For the last ten years we have run our own educational courses in minor illness management, initially for nurses and more recently also for pharmacists, paramedics and ECPs The tutors at NMIC are all who see patients with minor illness on a daily basis and understand the problems which their management may bring The National Minor Illness Centre is based in an NHS general practice in Luton Our advice is completely independent