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Pharmacy, prescription-only (POM), and general sale list (GSL) medicines: apply to move your medicine to a different classification.
How to comply with the requirements on promoting medicines to the public and to prescribers and suppliers of medicines.
Guidance on prescribing or supplying veterinary medicines including requirements for registration and inspection of premises.
Information on carrying medicine containing controlled drugs for individual travellers entering or leaving the UK.
Get help to classify pharmaceutical products used to treat or prevent diseases or ailments (in humans or animals), including comparators used in clinical trials and placebos.
People are urged to seek advice from healthcare professionals if they feel they have become dependent on or addicted to codeine linctus.
How veterinary medicines can be advertised.
Legal terms for veterinary medicines, marketing of non-medicinal products including medicinal words and phrases, how to complain.
How to account for VAT on goods and services provided by registered health professionals, including doctors, dentists, nurses and pharmacists.
How to package medicines for sale and what information you must provide to consumers and healthcare professionals.
Guidance for prescribing vets on the use of the cascade.
You must get permission to export certain drugs and medicines.
Guidance for pharmacists on prescriptions issued in EU countries, Norway, Iceland, Liechtenstein and Switzerland.
Guidance for UK wholesalers and manufacturers on how to import human medicines including unlicensed medicines, how to apply for a licence and how much it costs.
How to prepare for implementation and compliance of the Safety Features Regulation.
The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA), working with law enforcement partners, seized more than 15.5 million doses of illegally traded medicines with a street value of more than £30 million during 2023.
Information for companies on the import and export of controlled drugs to and from the UK.
Fake, potentially harmful Ozempic and Saxenda pens have been found in the UK: you should only access these medicines via a medical prescription.
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