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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.
How to get scientific advice about your licence application from MHRA, including: submitting a request, your meeting with MHRA, fees.
How the MHRA makes decisions on what is a medicinal product (borderline products).
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.
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 .
Information on carrying medicine containing controlled drugs for individual travellers entering or leaving the UK.
Information about new applications, post-licensing, advertising, product information and fees.
Information on good laboratory, manufacturing and distribution practice, good pharmacovigilance practice (GPvP), out-of-specification investigations, inspection metrics and fees.
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 .
Guidance for healthcare professionals on managing specific medicines and medical devices and using them safely.
Guidance on applications and licences for manufacturers & wholesalers, suspended and revoked licences, registrations, exporting medicines, defective medicinal products and fees.
Legal terms for veterinary medicines, marketing of non-medicinal products including medicinal words and phrases, how to complain.
Get help to classify herbal medicines, vitamins, food preparations, supplements and tonics for import and export.
How to package medicines for sale and what information you must provide to consumers and healthcare professionals.
Apply for a promising innovative medicine (PIM) designation or scientific opinion for your medicine from MHRA.
Guidance for UK wholesalers and manufacturers on how to import human medicines including unlicensed medicines, how to apply for a licence and how much it costs.
Information on clinical trials for medicines, how to apply for authorisation in the UK, how to manage your authorisation, reporting safety issues and details about the MHRA phase I accreditation scheme.
Guidance on how to reclassify your medicine and how to name medicines.
Information for patients, healthcare professionals and developers of new medicines
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