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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.
How to contact the VMD for specific services or enquiries.
Information on BTV-3 vaccines for keepers and vets, including rules for reporting vaccinations and keeping records.
Service for Marketing Authorisation Holders, Manufacturers and Wholesalers.
The legal text underpinning the regulation of manufacture, authorisation, marketing, distribution, use and post-authorisation surveillance of veterinary medicines and medicated feed.
Records that must be kept when supplying or administering veterinary medicines in the UK.
This is the Hub for all the Veterinary Medicines Directorate's communications on current and future regulatory changes.
You must get permission to export certain drugs and medicines.
Explainer for the rules for advertising products used in, on or near animals that are not licensed veterinary medicines.
Explanation of what Pharmacovigilance means and who is responsible. These documents must be read with the Implementation Explainer at VMD Information Hub.
Apply for an import certificate to import a medicinal product into the UK for veterinary use.
Legal requirements and good practice guidance for Veterinary Practice Premises Inspections.
Guidance for the pharmaceutical industry on Marketing Authorisations for veterinary medicines in the UK.
How to register veterinary practice premises for veterinary surgeons to supply veterinary medicines.
Registers of authorised manufacturers, wholesale dealer sites and retailers.
Apply for an authorisation to manufacture extemporaneous preparations, autogenous vaccines, stem cell products or blood products for non-food animals.
Explainer on product information templates to be used by applicants and Marketing Authorisation Holders (MAHs) of veterinary medicines.
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