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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 register with an NHS doctor and patient questionnaires in Ukrainian and Russian.
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.
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.
Get help to classify herbal medicines, vitamins, food preparations, supplements and tonics for import and export.
How to comply with the requirements on promoting medicines to the public and to prescribers and suppliers of medicines.
We want to remind healthcare professionals that use of systemic (oral and injectable) NSAIDs such as ibuprofen, naproxen, and diclofenac is contraindicated in the last trimester of pregnancy (after 28 weeks of pregnancy).
How veterinary medicines can be advertised.
These reports explain our assessment of the scientific evidence used to lead to regulatory decisions on the safety of medicines or medicines classes.
Information on carrying medicine containing controlled drugs for individual travellers entering or leaving the UK.
How the MHRA makes decisions on what is a medicinal product (borderline products).
You must get permission to export certain drugs and medicines.
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...
Change your protocol, update your authorisation, report safety issues, submit safety updates and complete your end-of-trial study report.
Search for information about medicines including patient information leaflets (PILs), details on how the medicine can be used (SmPCs) and scientific reports (PARs).
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.
How to account for VAT on goods and services provided by registered health professionals, including doctors, dentists, nurses and pharmacists.
Guidance for healthcare and public health commissioners on planning treatment services for dependence on prescription and over-the-counter medicines.
Safety leaflet on opioid medicines to help patients and their families reduce the risks of harm.
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