Guidance and regulation

Search for information about medicines including patient information leaflets (PILs), details on how the medicine can be used (SmPCs) and scientific reports (PARs).

• From: Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency
• Updated: 19 December 2019

Guidance on how Pharmacy First will help pharmacies support their communities, with information on the new clinical pathways and fee structure.

• From: Department of Health and Social Care
• Updated: 16 November 2023

• Pharmacy First letter to contractors

  16 November 2023 Dear community pharmacy contractors, We write to provide…

Guidance and advice for community pharmacies in England providing services to people who use drugs and alcohol.

• From: Office for Health Improvement and Disparities
• Updated: 24 January 2024

• Community pharmacy: delivering substance misuse services

  Introduction This guidance is for community pharmacists and pharmacy…

A 5-year deal setting out how community pharmacy will support delivery of the NHS Long Term Plan.

• From: Department of Health and Social Care and 1 others
• Updated: 12 May 2023

Information for patients, healthcare professionals and developers of new medicines

• From: Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency
• Updated: 10 August 2022

This Statutory Instrument makes the necessary legislative amendments to update the statute book by removing references to the revoked Annex VIII of GB Classification, Labelling and Packaging of Substances and Mixtures Regula…

• From: Department of Health and Social Care
• Updated: 19 December 2023

This publication supports local authority health and wellbeing boards to develop and update pharmaceutical needs assessments (PNAs).

• From: Department of Health and Social Care
• Updated: 29 October 2021

Resources for pharmacies to achieve Healthy Living Pharmacy (HLP) Level 1 status.

• From: Closed organisation: Public Health England
• Updated: 18 July 2016

Guidance for specialists for initiation of valproate in female patients and for annual review and pregnancy testing to support adherence to pregnancy prevention requirements during the pandemic.

• From: Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency
• Updated: 6 May 2020

How and when to register updated packaging and information leaflets when new national marketing authorisations have been issued

• From: Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency
• Updated: 31 December 2020

Report on the public health impact of nurses and midwives, dentists, allied health professionals and pharmacists.

• From: Closed organisation: Public Health England
• Updated: 21 June 2017

Report on the service providing sterile, controlled environments for the preparation of injectable medicines into ready-to-administer formats for patients.

• From: Department of Health and Social Care
• Updated: 29 October 2020

If pharmacies wish to ‘pack down’ larger packs of a medicinal product, they need to follow these instructions

• From: Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency
• Updated: 24 March 2020

Interventions that can be made by pharmacy teams, to improve quality of life for older people.

• From: Closed organisation: Public Health England
• Updated: 19 March 2019

Sets out opportunities for commissioners and providers to realise community pharmacy’s role in protecting and improving the nation's health.

• From: Closed organisation: Public Health England
• Updated: 6 September 2017

Guidance on how to make reasonable adjustments to help support people with learning disabilities in using pharmacy services.

• From: Closed organisation: Public Health England
• Updated: 23 June 2017

Report on how community pharmacies can improve the prevention, early detection and management of blood pressure.

• From: Closed organisation: Public Health England
• Updated: 1 February 2017

Guidance for healthcare professionals on providing free prescriptions for participants in the HEAL-COVID or STIMULATE-ICP long COVID clinical trials.

• From: Department of Health and Social Care
• Updated: 29 March 2023

Report showing opportunities and challenges for community pharmacy teams to further support the public’s health.

• From: Closed organisation: Public Health England
• Updated: 29 November 2016

Information to raise awareness with commissioners and providers of the community pharmacy offer for sexual health, reproductive health and HIV services.

• From: Closed organisation: Public Health England
• Updated: 25 March 2019