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Search for information about medicines including patient information leaflets (PILs), details on how the medicine can be used (SmPCs) and scientific reports (PARs).
The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency regulates medicines, medical devices and blood components for transfusion in the UK. MHRA is an executive agency, sponsored by the Department of Health and Social Care .
How to get scientific advice about your licence application from MHRA, including: submitting a request, your meeting with MHRA, fees.
Information about new applications, post-licensing, advertising, product information and fees.
Pharmacy, prescription-only (POM), and general sale list (GSL) medicines: apply to move your medicine to a different classification.
How the MHRA makes decisions on what is a medicinal product (borderline products).
Guidance on applications and licences for manufacturers & wholesalers, suspended and revoked licences, registrations, exporting medicines, defective medicinal products and fees.
Get help to classify herbal medicines, vitamins, food preparations, supplements and tonics for import and export.
Information on good laboratory, manufacturing and distribution practice, good pharmacovigilance practice (GPvP), out-of-specification investigations, inspection metrics and fees.
Register as a manufacturer, importer or distributor of active substances.
The Commission on Human Medicines (CHM) advises ministers on the safety, efficacy and quality of medicinal products. CHM is an advisory non-departmental public body, sponsored by the Department of Health and Social Care .
How to package medicines for sale and what information you must provide to consumers and healthcare professionals.
Guidance for healthcare professionals on managing specific medicines and medical devices and using them safely.
The actions to take for sourcing medicines in different circumstances.
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.
Information for wholesale dealer licence holders about the medicines put on the UK market for UK patients that they cannot export or hoard.
Information for patients, healthcare professionals and developers of new medicines
Information on herbal medicines, how to apply for a traditional herbal registration (THR), banned or restricted herbal ingredients, homeopathic medicines and fees.
How to comply with the requirements on promoting medicines to the public and to prescribers and suppliers of medicines.
The CMU is part of the Medicine, Pharmacy and Industry Group of DHSC which looks at supply and procurement in hospitals.
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