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As a vet or pharmacist, you must follow legal requirements when working with controlled drugs in veterinary medicine.
Apply to import a medicine for veterinary use into the UK.
Prescribing or supplying veterinary medicines including requirements for registration and inspection of premises.
Guidance for prescribing vets on the use of the cascade.
Information on BTV-3 vaccines for keepers and vets, including rules for reporting vaccinations and keeping records.
How to contact the VMD for specific services or enquiries.
Service for Marketing Authorisation Holders, Manufacturers, Veterinary Professionals and Wholesalers.
You must get permission to export certain drugs and medicines.
Apply for an import certificate to import a medicinal product into the UK for veterinary use.
This is the Hub for all the Veterinary Medicines Directorate's communications on current and future regulatory changes.
Who in the pharmaceutical industry can be a Marketing Authorisation Holder, named distributor or local representative and how to make changes to these.
List of currently authorised veterinary medicines containing controlled drugs (CDs) and their requirements for special storage and witnessed destruction.
The legal text underpinning the regulation of manufacture, authorisation, marketing, distribution, use and post-authorisation surveillance of veterinary medicines and medicated feed.
Explainer for the rules for advertising products used in, on or near animals that are not licensed veterinary medicines.
Guidance for the pharmaceutical industry on Marketing Authorisations for veterinary medicines in the UK.
Legal requirements and good practice guidance for Veterinary Practice Premises Inspections.
Explanation of what Pharmacovigilance means and who is responsible. These documents must be read with the Implementation Explainer at VMD Information Hub.
How to report suspected illegal activity and how we will deal with these reports.
Registers of authorised manufacturers, wholesale dealer sites and retailers.
The PLI is a government-led initiative, working with private veterinary laboratories to bring together antimicrobial resistance (AMR) data from diagnostic testing of sick animals.
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