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How to register with an NHS doctor and patient questionnaires in Ukrainian and Russian.
Pharmacy, prescription-only (POM), and general sale list (GSL) medicines: apply to move your medicine to a different classification.
New 10-year plan to expand and improve the drug and alcohol workforce published
How to account for VAT on goods and services provided by registered health professionals, including doctors, dentists, nurses and pharmacists.
Guidance on prescribing or supplying veterinary medicines including requirements for registration and inspection of premises.
How to get scientific advice about your licence application from MHRA, including: submitting a request, your meeting with MHRA, fees.
Guidance for healthcare and public health commissioners on planning treatment services for dependence on prescription and over-the-counter medicines.
Find out about coronavirus (COVID-19) treatments available outside of hospital, including information on free prescriptions and lateral flow tests.
How to comply with the requirements on promoting medicines to the public and to prescribers and suppliers of medicines.
NHS Business Services Authority contact number for ordering prepaid prescriptions for 3 or 12 months at a cheaper rate than single prescriptions
Guidance on how to license electronic cigarettes and other inhaled nicotine-containing products (NCPs) as medicines in 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.
Work out the VAT liability of goods and services supplied by health and care institutions and providers of non residential care to children.
Information on how to request assistance from NSDR.
Fake, potentially harmful Ozempic and Saxenda pens have been found in the UK: you should only access these medicines via a medical prescription.
Advice for healthcare professionals on the reclassification of codeine linctus to a prescription-only medicine (POM), following a public consultation.
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