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Information on carrying medicine containing controlled drugs for individual travellers entering or leaving the UK.
As a vet or pharmacist, you must follow legal requirements when working with controlled drugs in veterinary medicine.
How to get information including patient information leaflets (PILs), details on how the medicine can be used (SmPCs) and scientific reports (PARs).
Information for patients, healthcare professionals and developers of new medicines
How the MHRA makes decisions on what is a medicinal product (borderline products).
How to register with an NHS doctor and patient questionnaires in Ukrainian and Russian.
Your rights and security searches, body scans and privacy rules if you're disabled or taking medication aboard aircraft
Get help to classify pharmaceutical products used to treat or prevent diseases or ailments (in humans or animals), including comparators used in clinical trials and placebos.
Pharmacy (P), prescription-only (POM), and general sale list (GSL) medicines: apply to move your medicine to a different classification.
When entering the UK, you need to prove your medicine is prescribed to you if it contains a controlled drug - find out what proof you need to get.
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