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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.
Pharmacy, prescription-only (POM), and general sale list (GSL) medicines: apply to move your medicine to a different classification.
Search for information about medicines including patient information leaflets (PILs), details on how the medicine can be used (SmPCs) and scientific reports (PARs).
You must get permission to export certain drugs and medicines.
A new pathway supporting innovative approaches to the safe, timely and efficient development of medicines to improve patient access.
Directory of current ICH Guidelines which have been implemented by the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency.
How the MHRA makes decisions on what is a medicinal product (borderline products).
How to comply with the requirements on promoting medicines to the public and to prescribers and suppliers of medicines.
The eMIT provides information about prices and usage for generic drugs and pharmaceutical products.
How to get scientific advice about your licence application from MHRA, including: submitting a request, your meeting with MHRA, fees.
How to apply for a clinical trial including eligibility, phases, model IMPDs, costs and how to make changes to your application.
Placing a veterinary medicine on the market, including non-medicinal products, medicinal words and phrases, how to obtain advice, report non-compliance.
Information for patients, healthcare professionals and developers of new medicines
The CMU is part of the Medicine, Pharmacy and Industry Group of DHSC which looks at supply and procurement in hospitals.
Guidance on how to license electronic cigarettes and other inhaled nicotine-containing products (NCPs) as medicines in the UK.
Guidance for the veterinary pharmaceutical industry on the production of mock-ups for assessment.
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.
How to account for VAT on goods and services provided by registered health professionals, including doctors, dentists, nurses and pharmacists.
How to use PharmaQC to access pharmaceutical suppliers, Quality Control (QC) pharmacists and Commercial Medicines Unit (CMU) buyers.
Get help to classify herbal medicines, vitamins, food preparations, supplements and tonics for import and export.
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