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How the MHRA makes decisions on when a product is a medical device (borderline products), and which risk class should apply to a medical device.
Draft statutory instrument, which will make amendments to retained EU law related to the rules on over the counter derivatives, central counterparties and trade repositories, to be laid under the EU (Withdrawal) Act.
How to use a crossover randomised controlled trial to evaluate your digital health product.
Prescribing or supplying veterinary medicines including requirements for registration and inspection of premises.
Get help to classify herbal medicines, vitamins, food preparations, supplements and tonics for import and export.
You must not supply certain single-use plastic items in England, except for some exemptions.
Two pharmacists who sold ‘industrial’ quantities of Class C controlled drugs were yesterday sentenced to two years’ imprisonment each, suspended for 24 months, at Southwark Crown Court following an investigation by the Criminal Enforcement Unit of the Medicines and Healthcare...
How to comply with the exemption from the Veterinary Medicines Regulations that allow certain animal medicines to be sold without a marketing authorisation.
Guidance for healthcare and public health commissioners on planning treatment services for dependence on prescription and over-the-counter medicines.
How veterinary medicines can be advertised.
The Office of Fair Trading ( OFT ) was responsible for protecting consumer interests throughout the UK. Its responsibilities have been passed to a number of different organisations. View the closed OFT site in the UK Government Web Archive ....
Guidance for prescribing vets on the use of the cascade.
An overview of the process including submitting or fast-tracking an application, naming your medicine and paying fees.
Guidance on how to license electronic cigarettes and other inhaled nicotine-containing products (NCPs) as medicines in the UK.
Guidance for industry on flexible approaches to regulation we are taking during the COVID-19 outbreak.
Find out about the VAT domestic reverse charge procedure which applies to the buying and selling of certain goods and services.
Over two million doses of illegally traded medicines valued at almost £5m seized so far this year.
How to account for VAT on goods and services provided by registered health professionals, including doctors, dentists, nurses and pharmacists.
Information on carrying medicine containing controlled drugs for individual travellers entering or leaving the UK.
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