Guidance and regulation

Cancel a marketing authorisation, traditional herbal registration or parallel import product licence or withdraw a pending submission.

• From: Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency
• Updated: 2 October 2015

An overview of the legal requirements for children’s medicines that Marketing Authorisation Holders (MAHs) need to abide by.

• From: Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency
• Updated: 31 December 2020

Advice for healthcare professionals on how to use blood glucose meters safely and effectively.

• From: Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency
• Updated: 1 December 2013

Sets out the progress made in applying the lessons learned from the failings at Mid Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust.

• From: Department of Health and Social Care
• Updated: 11 February 2015

Relevant safety information for users of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) equipment in clinical use.

• From: Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency
• Updated: 4 April 2022

Reporting, investigating and recalling suspected defective medicinal products to the Defective Medicines Report Centre (DMRC).

• From: Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency
• Updated: 2 August 2021

Guidance for healthcare professionals about safeguarding vulnerable individuals from being drawn into terrorism.

• From: Department of Health and Social Care
• Updated: 1 September 2022

The Thirlwall Inquiry has been set up to examine events at the Countess of Chester Hospital and their implications following the trial, and subsequent convictions, of former neonatal nurse Lucy Letby of murder and attempted …

• From: Department of Health and Social Care
• Updated: 22 November 2023

Sets out legal responsibilities for the management of information in NHS organisations.

• From: Department of Health and Social Care
• Updated: 21 September 2007

Explains how to report a suspected or confirmed norovirus outbreak using the HNORS website, for infection control staff in NHS hospitals.

• From: Closed organisation: Public Health England
• Updated: 4 October 2019

Apply for and maintain registrations for the brokering of human medicines.

• From: Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency
• Updated: 19 October 2022

Directions on safety and security to providers of high security psychiatric services.

• From: Department of Health and Social Care
• Updated: 21 June 2019

E-learning modules for healthcare professionals on minimising the risks of using medicines and information on how to access medical device modules.

• From: Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency
• Updated: 8 February 2022

Guidance for staff involved in planning to discharge patients at risk of or experiencing homelessness, or who have no recourse to public funds.

• From: Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities and 1 others
• Updated: 26 January 2024

What is considered off-label use of a medical device and examples of it.

• From: Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency
• Updated: 1 July 2023

This guidance demonstrates stakeholders, including the government, working together to address supply issues.

• From: Department of Health and Social Care
• Updated: 11 January 2013

Guidance for healthcare professionals on using benchtop sterilizers safely and effectively.

• From: Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency
• Updated: 1 January 2013

Guidance to help applicants and licence holders get and maintain a manufacturer licence - MHRA guidance note 5.

• From: Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency
• Updated: 17 November 2023

The Lampard Inquiry (formerly known as the Essex Mental Health Independent Inquiry) will examine deaths of mental health inpatients in Essex between 2000 and 2023.

• From: Department of Health and Social Care
• Updated: 10 April 2024

Typical effective doses, equivalent periods of natural background radiation and lifetime fatal cancer risks from diagnostic medical exposures.

• From: Closed organisation: Public Health England
• Updated: 4 September 2008