We use some essential cookies to make this website work.
We’d like to set additional cookies to understand how you use GOV.UK, remember your settings and improve government services.
We also use cookies set by other sites to help us deliver content from their services.
You have accepted additional cookies. You can change your cookie settings at any time.
You have rejected additional cookies. You can change your cookie settings at any time.
Departments, agencies and public bodies
News stories, speeches, letters and notices
Detailed guidance, regulations and rules
Reports, analysis and official statistics
Consultations and strategy
Data, Freedom of Information releases and corporate reports
Information and documents on Public Health England’s review of the evidence for dependence on, and withdrawal from, prescribed medicines.
Pharmacy, prescription-only (POM), and general sale list (GSL) medicines: apply to move your medicine to a different classification.
Guidance on prescribing or supplying veterinary medicines including requirements for registration and inspection of premises.
Scope of the review of the evidence for dependence on, and withdrawal from, prescribed medicines.
Guidance for pharmacists on prescriptions issued in EU countries, Norway, Iceland, Liechtenstein and Switzerland.
Report of the review of the evidence for dependence on, and withdrawal from, prescribed medicines.
Information on carrying medicine containing controlled drugs for individual travellers entering or leaving the UK.
Kieron Banks (34) was sentenced today at the Nightingale Court in Wolverhampton for the illegal possession and intent to supply prescription-only medication valued at over £2m following investigations by the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA).
Karina Filimonova and Andrejs Stolarovs were each sentenced at Southwark Crown Court to eight months in prison for the illegal possession and intent to supply unlicensed medicines, including prescription only medicines, valued at £1.6m following investigations by the Medicines and...
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.
Over two million doses of illegally traded medicines valued at almost £5m seized so far this year.
Terms of reference of the expert reference group advising the review of prescribed medicines.
Guidance for prescribing vets on the use of the cascade.
It's illegal to drive if you're unfit to do so because you're on legal or illegal drugs, or you have certain levels of drugs or medicine in your blood
Legal requirement for the sale of veterinary medicines on the internet and the VMD Accredited Internet Retailer Scheme (AIRS).
Don’t include personal or financial information like your National Insurance number or credit card details.
To help us improve GOV.UK, we’d like to know more about your visit today. Please fill in this survey.