Guidance and regulation

Guidance on managing and using bed rails safely.

• From: Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency
• Updated: 30 August 2023

Code of practice on the effective prevention and control of infection by health service providers.

• From: Department of Health and Social Care
• Updated: 13 December 2022

• Health and Social Care Act 2008: code of practice on the prevention and control of infections and related guidance

  Executive summary Good infection prevention and control (IPC), including…

How to respond to individuals at risk of developing pressure ulcers, prevent harm where they occur and raise a safeguarding concern.

• From: Department of Health and Social Care
• Updated: 5 March 2024

• Safeguarding adults protocol: pressure ulcers and raising a safeguarding concern

  Foreword I am delighted to publish this updated guidance with the aim of…

Comply with good manufacturing practice (GMP) and good distribution practice (GDP), and prepare for an inspection.

• From: Department of Health and Social Care and 1 others
• Updated: 27 December 2020

Sets out standards required for NHS organisations concerning patient confidentiality.

• From: Department of Health and Social Care
• Updated: 7 November 2003

Details of the Yellow Card scheme, which is the system for recording adverse incidents with medicines and medical devices in the UK.

• From: Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency
• Updated: 1 January 2021

Pharmacy, prescription-only (POM), and general sale list (GSL) medicines: apply to move your medicine to a different classification.

• From: Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency
• Updated: 10 April 2024

How to show MHRA you're meeting good clinical practice (GCP) standards and what to expect from an inspection.

• From: Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency
• Updated: 6 April 2023

UK companies who have their licence to manufacture or wholesale medicines terminated and cancelled.

• From: Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency
• Updated: 15 April 2024

Apply for changes to your marketing authorisation, including minor variations type IA and IB, major variations type II and extensions.

• From: Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency
• Updated: 22 April 2024

How to apply for, update and cancel licences for the manufacture, import and wholesale of human and veterinary medicines.

• From: Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency
• Updated: 25 March 2024

Guidance on manufacturing, importing, distributing and supplying specially manufactured or ordered products, including cannabis-based products for medicinal use in humans (CBPMs), known as 'specials'

• From: Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency
• Updated: 12 May 2023

Guidance for staff involved in planning to discharge patients at risk of or experiencing homelessness, or who have no recourse to public funds.

• From: Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities and 1 others
• Updated: 26 January 2024

Information on when software applications are considered to be a medical device and how they are regulated.

• From: Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency
• Updated: 1 July 2023

How mental health practitioners can manage risk including self-harm and harm to others.

• From: Department of Health and Social Care
• Updated: 31 March 2009

Who can supply and or administer specific medicines to patients without a doctor under a PGD and which medicines can be administered.

• From: Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency
• Updated: 4 December 2017

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.

• From: Department of Health and Social Care and 1 others
• Updated: 31 December 2020

How to get scientific advice about your licence application from MHRA, including: submitting a request, your meeting with MHRA, fees.

• From: Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency
• Updated: 25 March 2022

How to apply for a traditional herbal registration (THR) to market a herbal medicine in the UK.

• From: Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency
• Updated: 5 January 2024

How to register on the MHRA portal and use it to apply for and update marketing authorisations and make other applications.

• From: Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency
• Updated: 8 October 2019