MHRA removes exemption that allows pharmacies without wholesale dealer’s...
The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency, the UK’s medicines regulator, has withdrawn the exemption that had allowed pharmacies to trade in drugs without a wholesale dealer’s licence....
View ArticleDuff appointed as chair of MHRA
A new chairman of the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) has been announced. Professor Gordon Duff will take his new position from 1 January 2013. He will take over from Sir...
View ArticleMHRA consults on UK online database to deal with counterfeit drugs
The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (the “MHRA”) has proposed a new online database to list Internet pharmacies that are authorised to sell medicines, with the aim of dealing with...
View ArticleMHRA stops purchase of medicines by wholesaler from pharmacist that does not...
Blackbay v Secretary of State for Health and MHRA, High Court The High Court has upheld a decision by the Secretary of State for Health and the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (the...
View ArticleDepartment of Health provides pharma supply chain with legal and ethical...
Some may say better late than never, but the Department of Health has now published guidance reminding people in the pharma supply chain of their obligations in light of recent changes in activity that...
View ArticlePharmacy Voice calls for greater awareness over illicit online pharmacies
Pharmacy Voice has called for an increased public awareness campaign to warn consumers over the dangers of buying medicines from illicit online pharmacies. It said that the European Union rules under...
View ArticleMHRA wants better information and presentation on risks and benefits of...
The UK’s pharmaceutical regulator has given the pharma industry a bitter “pill” to swallow with criticism of the poor quality of information on PILs (patient information leaflets). PILs should have...
View ArticleABPI warns of acute problems from Falsified Medicines Directive...
The Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry (ABPI) has voiced serious concerns over supply chain problems on the horizon with the forthcoming implementation of key parts of the European...
View ArticleMHRA consults on sale of medicines on planes and trains
The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) is consulting on allowing medicines to be sold on planes and trains. If approved, it will require changes to the law – in particular, the...
View ArticleGive NICE access to all MHRA data, says National Audit Office
The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) should be given access to all the evidence of underlying product licensing decisions made by regulators such as the Medicines and Healthcare...
View ArticleMHRA takes £12m counterfeit medicines haul
The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) – the UK medicines regulator – has taken its largest ever counterfeit drugs haul with a seizure of goods worth £12m. It was a worldwide...
View ArticleMHRA ups the pressure on biggest convicted counterfeit drugs supplier
The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) has put pressure on the person convicted of the biggest counterfeit drugs haul in the UK, by obtaining a court order that would see his...
View ArticleFalsified Medicines Directive now implemented and in force in the UK
The Falsified Medicines Directive has been transposed into UK legislation and came into force on 20 August. The new Directive introduces measures to prevent the entry of falsified medicines into the...
View ArticleHerbal medicines to be registered for lawful UK sales
All herbal medicines will have to be registered in order to be lawfully sold in the UK from 30 April 2014. This was announced by the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA). From...
View ArticleIndia’s pharma manufacturing march continues with as many drugs for UK...
The onward march of India as a manufacturing hotbed has continued as it has now virtually caught up with UK premises in terms of number of products manufactured for UK patients. 3,685 licensed...
View ArticleMHRA: many healthcare apps likely to qualify as medical devices
The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) has answered a long-held question facing people in the rapidly growing world of healthcare apps: are apps subject to a regulatory regime?...
View ArticleOperation Pangea VII leads to over 200 arrests
237 people have been arrested in Operation Pangea VII, an Interpol-coordinated operation to seize counterfeit medicines. Over 10,000 websites which were selling counterfeit medicines were also closed...
View ArticleEMA: app to be developed to report adverse drug reactions
The European Medicines Agency is taking forward plans to develop an app that will enable adverse drug reactions to be reported by healthcare professionals to regulators in the European Union. The three...
View ArticleGovernment pledges to cut cost and time for new medicines
The Government has announced the “Innovative Medicines and Med Tech Review”, signalling its decision to consider new pathways for the development, assessment and adoption of emerging 21st century...
View ArticleMHRA closed 1,600 websites in 2014
The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency closed down over 1,600 websites in 2014. The UK’s medicines regulator announced that the offending websites were illegally advertising and...
View ArticleOnline medicine sellers now need to be registered with MHRA
As of 1 July, anyone selling medicines online need to be registered with the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency. On every web page, the seller must also display the new European common...
View ArticleRecord haul of £16m of counterfeit drugs seized by MHRA
A record haul of £16m has been seized by the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency, the UK’s medicines regulator. The items seized included potentially harmful slimming pills, erectile...
View ArticleMHRA signs MoU with Indian regulator to boost safety
The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with its Indian counterpart to boost safety of medicines and medical devices. One quarter of medicines...
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