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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.
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.
How to register with an NHS doctor and patient questionnaires in Ukrainian and Russian.
Potential effects on performance of prescription and or over the counter drugs.
Information for patients, healthcare professionals and developers of new medicines
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.
Get help to classify herbal medicines, vitamins, food preparations, supplements and tonics for import and export.
Your rights and security searches, body scans and privacy rules if you're disabled or taking medication aboard aircraft
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.
Accord Healthcare Ltd, UK has informed the MHRA about an error with the Patient Information Leaflets (PILs) that have been packaged in the batches of these products mentioned in this notification.
Information for patients who have been prescribed Lagevrio (molnupiravir), the COVID-19 oral antiviral medication.
Guidance on applications and licences for manufacturers & wholesalers, suspended and revoked licences, registrations, exporting medicines, defective medicinal products and fees.
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).
How to comply with the requirements on promoting medicines to the public and to prescribers and suppliers of medicines.
Information about new applications, post-licensing, advertising, product information and fees.
A serious shortage protocol (SSP) has been issued across the UK for Utrogestan® 100mg capsules today (19 May 2023).
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