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Safety leaflet on opioid medicines to help patients and their families reduce the risks of harm.
How to get scientific advice about your licence application from MHRA, including: submitting a request, your meeting with MHRA, fees.
Topical steroid products are safe and highly effective treatments for the management of a wide range of inflammatory skin diseases but have important risks, especially with prolonged use at high potency. In the coming months, as a result of regulatory...
The penalties if you are caught taking or dealing drugs - drug classification, fines and prison sentences
You must get permission to export certain drugs and medicines.
A summary of recent letters and notifications sent to healthcare professionals about medicines and medical devices, and information about the publication of two recent Device Safety Information pages. The article also includes information on a recent National Patient Safety Alert...
How to apply for a clinical trial including eligibility, phases, model IMPDs, costs and how to make changes to your application.
Pharmacy, prescription-only (POM), and general sale list (GSL) medicines: apply to move your medicine to a different classification.
Covering thalidomide, lenalidomide, and pomalidomide: temporary guidance for pregnancy prevention arrangements for patients taking them during COVID-19
How we evaluated pre-exposure prophylactic (preventative) treatments for COVID-19.
Get help to classify herbal medicines, vitamins, food preparations, supplements and tonics for import and export.
Explains changes to drug driving law and the guidance available for healthcare professionals and users of prescription medicine.
Information for wholesale dealer licence holders about the medicines put on the UK market for UK patients that they cannot export or hoard.
Search for information about medicines including patient information leaflets (PILs), details on how the medicine can be used (SmPCs) and scientific reports (PARs).
An overview of the process including submitting or fast-tracking an application, naming your medicine and paying fees.
Guidance on how to license electronic cigarettes and other inhaled nicotine-containing products (NCPs) as medicines in the UK.
How veterinary medicines can be advertised.
Manx Healthcare Ltd. has informed MHRA that they have identified a problem with the product packaging of the batch indicated in the table.
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