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Apply to import a medicine for veterinary use into the UK.
The home of Veterinary Medicines Directorate on GOV.UK. The Veterinary Medicines Directorate (VMD) protects animal health, public health and the environment.
Apply for an import certificate to import a medicinal product into the UK for veterinary use.
As a vet or pharmacist, you must follow legal requirements when working with controlled drugs in veterinary medicine.
Check the veterinary product information database to find out if a medicine is safe to use on your pet or has been removed from sale
This is a collection of veterinary medicines guidance which have been created as a guide for the Veterinary Medicines Regulations.
You must get permission to export certain drugs and medicines.
Guidance for prescribing vets on the use of the cascade.
Guidance on prescribing or supplying veterinary medicines including requirements for registration and inspection of premises.
Information and resources on the UK’s plans to see antimicrobial resistance contained and controlled by 2040.
Who you should contact if a pet or other animal or human has an unexpected reaction to a veterinary medicine or a problem with a microchip
Service for Marketing Authorisation Holders, Manufacturers and Wholesalers.
VMD response to concerns raised following media reports of serious adverse events in dogs given the vaccine containing four strains of Leptospira bacteria.
Sets out legal text on the manufacture, authorisation, marketing, distribution and post-authorisation surveillance of veterinary medicines.
This is the Hub for all the Veterinary Medicines Directorate's communications on current and future regulatory changes.
How to complain about the Veterinary Medicines Directorate's services.
Controlled drugs and the Misuse of Drugs Regulations as they relate to veterinary medicines.
Guidance for the pharmaceutical industry on Marketing Authorisations for veterinary medicines.
How to legally run a business that deals with the wholesale of animal medicines (veterinary medicinal products) and the WDA Register.
Guidance developed for vets following changes to RCVS guidance on prescribing POM-V medicines.
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