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Safety leaflet on opioid medicines to help patients and their families reduce the risks of harm.
How to contact MHRA for specific services or enquiries.
Apply for changes to your marketing authorisation, including minor variations type IA and IB, major variations type II and extensions.
UK companies who have their licence to manufacture or wholesale medicines terminated and cancelled.
Information about the risks of taking valproate medicines during pregnancy.
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'
Guidance on the 150-day assessment timeline for high-quality marketing authorisation applications including information on how to apply.
Information for manufacturers, healthcare professionals, researchers and patients on software as a medical device (SaMD) and AI as a medical device (AIaMD).
How to conform with the legal requirements for placing medical devices on the market.
A wholesale dealer in Great Britain may import Qualified Person certified medicines from the European Economic Area if certain checks are made by the ‘Responsible Person (import)’
Who can supply and or administer specific medicines to patients without a doctor under a PGD and which medicines can be administered.
How to apply for a traditional herbal registration (THR) to market a herbal medicine in the UK.
A new pathway supporting innovative approaches to the safe, timely and efficient development of medicines to improve patient access.
Pharmacovigilance system requirements
The Medicines and Healthcare Regulatory Agency have launched RegulatoryConnect, a service that provides the capability to track applications and view live authorisation details.
You must get permission to export certain drugs and medicines.
Information on when software applications are considered to be a medical device and how they are regulated.
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.
UK approved bodies listed under Medical Devices Regulations 2002 (SI 2002 No 618, as amended) (UK MDR 2002).
Apply for a promising innovative medicine (PIM) designation or scientific opinion for your medicine from MHRA.
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