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You must get permission to export certain drugs and medicines.
Export controls on goods that can be used for torture or capital punishment.
How to account for VAT on goods and services provided by registered health professionals, including doctors, dentists, nurses and pharmacists.
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.
Report discarded syringes, needles and other drug related items in public places to your council
Information for companies on the import and export of controlled drugs to and from the UK.
As a vet or pharmacist, you must follow legal requirements when working with controlled drugs in veterinary medicine.
Pharmacy, prescription-only (POM), and general sale list (GSL) medicines: apply to move your medicine to a different classification.
The penalties if you are caught taking or dealing drugs - drug classification, fines and prison sentences
List of controlled goods that follow the normal import declaration rules if HMRC apply continuity plans due to system issues.
Get help to classify herbal medicines, vitamins, food preparations, supplements and tonics for import and export.
Sets out medicines that cannot be exported from the UK or hoarded because they are needed for UK patients.
Information on carrying medicine containing controlled drugs for individual travellers entering or leaving the UK.
How to package medicines for sale and what information you must provide to consumers and healthcare professionals.
NHS Business Services Authority contact number for ordering prepaid prescriptions for 3 or 12 months at a cheaper rate than single prescriptions
The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA), working with law enforcement partners, seized more than 15.5 million doses of illegally traded medicines with a street value of more than £30 million during 2023.
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 .
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