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Apply to import a medicine for veterinary use into the UK.
As a vet or pharmacist, you must follow legal requirements when working with controlled drugs in veterinary medicine.
Guidance for prescribing vets on the use of the cascade.
Prescribing or supplying veterinary medicines including requirements for registration and inspection of premises.
This is the Hub for all the Veterinary Medicines Directorate's communications on current and future regulatory changes.
Service for Marketing Authorisation Holders, Manufacturers and Wholesalers.
How to contact the VMD for specific services or enquiries.
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.
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.
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.
Industry webinars on the main changes affecting veterinary surgeons, wholesalers and retailers supplying veterinary medicines in Northern Ireland.
For manufacturers and distributors of intermediate and final feedingstuffs containing a medicinal premix or specified feed additives in Great Britain and Northern Ireland.
References and list of enforcement notices and prosecutions which involved illegal activity with animal medicines in the last year.
Details about the arrangements in place from 1 January 2026 for veterinary medicines supplied to NI arrangements, including the new Government schemes.
Benefit-Risk Submission Report (BRSR) and Pharmacovigilance Sales Submission (PSS) templates and guidance for completion of BRSRs, PSSs and signal notifications.
Registers of authorised manufacturers, wholesale dealer sites and retailers.
Guidance for the pharmaceutical industry on Marketing Authorisations for veterinary medicines in the UK.
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