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

• Updated: 5 November 2025

Information for wholesale dealer licence holders about the medicines put on the UK market for UK patients that they cannot export or hoard.

• Updated: 28 June 2023

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.

• Updated: 22 July 2021

Information on carrying medicine containing controlled drugs for individual travellers entering or leaving the UK.

• Updated: 11 April 2023

How to get information including patient information leaflets (PILs), details on how the medicine can be used (SmPCs) and scientific reports (PARs).

• Updated: 19 December 2019

Guidance for prescribing vets on the use of the cascade.

• Updated: 19 June 2025

• Updated: 15 August 2025

The MHRA leads three new government-backed projects using AI-driven approaches to make medicines safer and bring treatments to patients more quickly.

• Updated: 22 October 2025

Ipca Laboratories UK Ltd has informed the MHRA that the Patient Information Leaflet (PIL) in the products listed in this notification do not contain all the required safety information.

• Updated: 26 August 2025

Information on sourcing medicines that can be supplied by wholesale distributor authorisation (WDA) holders based in the UK.

• Updated: 30 December 2024