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Information on carrying medicine containing controlled drugs for individual travellers entering or leaving the UK.
Search for information about medicines including patient information leaflets (PILs), details on how the medicine can be used (SmPCs) and scientific reports (PARs).
Pharmacy, prescription-only (POM), and general sale list (GSL) medicines: apply to move your medicine to a different classification.
As a vet or pharmacist, you must follow legal requirements when working with controlled drugs in veterinary medicine.
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.
Potential effects on performance of prescription and or over the counter drugs.
How to register with an NHS doctor and patient questionnaires in Ukrainian and Russian.
Information for patients, healthcare professionals and developers of new medicines
Get help to classify herbal medicines, vitamins, food preparations, supplements and tonics for import and export.
The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) has today (7 March 2024) approved the medicine ganaxolone (Ztalmy) as the first anti-seizure medication in the UK to treat cyclin-dependent kinase-like 5 (CDKL5) deficiency disorder (CDD).
Guidance on applications and licences for manufacturers & wholesalers, suspended and revoked licences, registrations, exporting medicines, defective medicinal products and fees.
How to comply with the requirements on promoting medicines to the public and to prescribers and suppliers of medicines.
Information for wholesale dealer licence holders about the medicines put on the UK market for UK patients that they cannot export or hoard.
Information about new applications, post-licensing, advertising, product information and fees.
A summary of recent letters and notifications sent to healthcare professionals about medicines and medical devices.
Your rights and security searches, body scans and privacy rules if you're disabled or taking medication aboard aircraft
Information for patients who have been prescribed Lagevrio (molnupiravir), the COVID-19 oral antiviral medication.
When entering the UK, you need to prove your medicine is prescribed to you if it contains a controlled drug - find out what proof you need to get.
The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency’s (MHRA) Criminal Enforcement Unit (CEU) seized hundreds of thousands of doses of suspected illegally traded medicines, including powerful prescription-only medicines, following coordinated raids at two residential and two business premises across North Manchester.
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