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Guidance for healthcare and public health commissioners on planning treatment services for dependence on prescription and over-the-counter medicines.
How to account for VAT on goods and services provided by registered health professionals, including doctors, dentists, nurses and pharmacists.
A new pathway supporting innovative approaches to the safe, timely and efficient development of medicines to improve patient access.
Legal requirements and good practice guidance for Veterinary Practice Premises Inspections.
Prescribing or supplying veterinary medicines including requirements for registration and inspection of premises.
Safety leaflet on opioid medicines to help patients and their families reduce the risks of harm.
Apply for a promising innovative medicine (PIM) designation or scientific opinion for your medicine from MHRA.
Comply with good manufacturing practice (GMP) and good distribution practice (GDP), and prepare for an inspection.
Guidance on how to license electronic cigarettes and other inhaled nicotine-containing products (NCPs) as medicines in the UK.
Public Assessment Report (PAR) discussing new risk minimisation measures which are being put into place for certain over-the-counter (OTC) stimulant laxatives.
It's illegal to drive if you're unfit to do so because you're on legal or illegal drugs, or you have certain levels of drugs or medicine in your blood
Fake, potentially harmful Ozempic and Saxenda pens have been found in the UK: you should only access these medicines via a medical prescription.
A summary of recent letters and notifications sent to healthcare professionals about medicines and medical devices, and information about the publication of two recent Device Safety Information pages. The article also includes information on a recent National Patient Safety Alert...
The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency’s (MHRA) Criminal Enforcement Unit (CEU) seized a quantity of suspected unlicensed medical products following coordinated raids at three residential and six business premises in Bolton, Greater Manchester.
Apply for an import certificate to import a medicinal product into the UK for veterinary use.
Guidance for prescribing vets on the use of the cascade.
Information for patients, healthcare professionals and developers of new medicines
How marketing authorisation holders should inform MHRA of a signal or an ADR to a medicine.
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