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Pharmacy, prescription-only (POM), and general sale list (GSL) medicines: apply to move your medicine to a different classification.
Over two million doses of illegally traded medicines valued at almost £5m seized so far this year.
Information on carrying medicine containing controlled drugs for individual travellers entering or leaving the UK.
The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA), working with law enforcement partners, seized more than 15.5 million doses of illegally traded medicines with a street value of more than £30 million during 2023.
Karina Filimonova and Andrejs Stolarovs were each sentenced at Southwark Crown Court to eight months in prison for the illegal possession and intent to supply unlicensed medicines, including prescription only medicines, valued at £1.6m following investigations by the Medicines and...
Guidance for pharmacists on prescriptions issued in EU countries, Norway, Iceland, Liechtenstein and Switzerland.
Information and documents on Public Health England’s review of the evidence for dependence on, and withdrawal from, prescribed medicines.
Prescribing or supplying veterinary medicines including requirements for registration and inspection of premises.
How to comply with the requirements on promoting medicines to the public and to prescribers and suppliers of medicines.
The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency’s (MHRA) Criminal Enforcement Unit (CEU) seized hundreds of thousands of doses of suspected illegally traded medicines, including powerful prescription-only medicines, following coordinated raids at two residential and two business premises across North Manchester.
Guidance for prescribing vets on the use of the cascade.
Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Europe B.V. is recalling the listed batches as a precautionary measure due to visible particulate matter during stability testing.
How to register with an NHS doctor and patient questionnaires in Ukrainian and Russian.
How to get scientific advice about your licence application from MHRA, including: submitting a request, your meeting with MHRA, fees.
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.
Legal requirements and good practice guidance for Veterinary Practice Premises Inspections.
Applying for an individual domestic drugs licence to prescribe cocaine, diamorphine and dipipanone for the treatment of addiction.
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