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Defective Medicines Report Centre (DMRC): an overview of our work

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Members of the DMRC team at MHRA

Joiners and leavers Those of you that have contacted the Defective Medicines Report Centre (DMRC) recently may have encountered some new names – I started as manager of the DMRC team in early April, joining Christine Cox and Alison Bunce. Also …

Supply of unlicensed medicines when an equivalent licensed product becomes available

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blister pack

We've had a number of instances where licensed versions of commonly supplied unlicensed medicines have become available.  We want to remind stakeholders what to do if this happens. Recent examples of newly licensed products of this nature include fomicyt, 40mg/ml fosfomycin …

Good Manufacturing Practice (GMP) data integrity: a new look at an old topic, part 3

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Vials in a laboratory

Data integrity is fundamental in a pharmaceutical quality system which ensures that medicines are of the required quality. A robust data governance approach will ensure that data is complete, consistent...

MHRA support for innovation - Inspectorate input to case studies

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Clockwise from top left. Images courtesy of: The Cell Therapy Catapult; BTG Plc; AstraZeneca; Fujifilm Diosynth Biotechnologies; Eisai.

MHRA has now published 7 case studies highlighting the work of our Innovation Office and showing how we help organisations that are developing innovative medicines, medical devices or using novel manufacturing processes to effectively navigate regulatory processes, so they can progress their products …

The British Pharmacopoeia's new website - setting the standards

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The launch of the new integrated British Pharmacopoeia website this week presents a great opportunity to explore this other group within the Inspection, Enforcement & Standards Division of MHRA. The British Pharmacopoeia (BP) makes an important contribution to the role of MHRA …

GPvP inspections of contract service providers

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Capsule broken open with images of heath spilling out

The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) has embarked on a recent initiative to evaluate the feasibility of conducting stand-alone inspections of pharmacovigilance contract service providers. In July 2003 MHRA introduced a statutory pharmacovigilance inspection programme of marketing authorisation …

GMP Inspectorate: blood compliance report assessment process

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Blood transfusion bag

The good manufacturing practice (GMP) Inspectorate performs a varied role in ensuring both medicines and bloods are available and are of the right quality using a risk-based inspection programme. A programme for the inspection of manufacturer and wholesale dealer licence …

Importation of unlicensed medicines and centrally authorised products - a helpful reminder

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Tablets in many colours

We have recently had a number of situation where importers of unlicensed medicines have attempted to notify MHRA of centrally authorised products for import as unlicensed medicines. This is not appropriate, as these are not unlicensed medicines and should be distributed …