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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.
How traditional herbal medicines and homeopathic medicines will be treated by the MHRA.
Pharmacy, prescription-only (POM), and general sale list (GSL) medicines: apply to move your medicine to a different classification.
Get help to classify herbal medicines, vitamins, food preparations, supplements and tonics for import and export.
How to apply for a clinical trial including eligibility, phases, model IMPDs, costs and how to make changes to your application.
Explains changes to drug driving law and the guidance available for healthcare professionals and users of prescription medicine.
How to get scientific advice about your licence application from MHRA, including: submitting a request, your meeting with MHRA, fees.
You must get permission to export certain drugs and medicines.
Guidance for prescribing vets on the use of the cascade.
Information about controlled drugs licences for companies that possess, manufacture, produce or supply controlled drugs in England, Wales or Scotland.
Guidance on how to license electronic cigarettes and other inhaled nicotine-containing products (NCPs) as medicines in the UK.
Advice and guidance on the health needs of migrant patients for healthcare practitioners.
Information for patients, healthcare professionals and developers of new medicines
Information on carrying medicine containing controlled drugs for individual travellers entering or leaving the UK.
As a vet or pharmacist, you must follow legal requirements when working with controlled drugs in veterinary medicine.
A new pathway supporting innovative approaches to the safe, timely and efficient development of medicines to improve patient access.
How the MHRA makes decisions on when a product is a medical device (borderline products), and which risk class should apply to a medical device.
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.
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