HRT without a prescription, from September for the first time ever, the Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) have announced that postmenopausal women in the UK can access a low dose hormone replacement therapy (HRT) product without a prescription, this is a huge step forward in making HRT available safely to women suffering sometimes debilitating symptoms while trying to lead a normal life.
Drones deliver cancer drugs to Isle of Wight – Throughout the month of July, cancer drugs were flown from Portsmouth to a hospital on the Isle of Wight via drone.
Do you have training requirements and no time or resources to complete this? Are all your staff members who are involved in Wholesale distribution activities trained on the requirements of GDP? 2.4 Training, in the Green Guide tells us they must be, and it must be continuous training.
Is your scope of Wholesale Distribution Authorisation (WDA) out of date? – Are you aware that the Wholesale Distribution Authorisation (WDA) categories have changed?
Separation of the Licence Holder and Responsible Person – The last paragraph on page 128 of the 2017 Green Guide contained the following sentence:
In the case of small companies, the licensing authority may accept the licence holder as the nominated RP.
The main concerns with regard to possible defects of medicinal products and the substances used in their manufacture or packaging.
NGO stands for Non-Governmental Organisation and NPO stands for Non-Profit Organisation. NGOs are created by legal persons who do not belong to the government.
Medicinal products seized within the week running from the 23rd-30th June, the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) seized 285,000 medicines and medical devices which were valued at almost £1,000,000.
Black market drugs have been a major threat to public health and since the beginning of the covid-19 pandemic, this hasn’t changed. In the early stages of the pandemic when vaccines and other antivirals were being tested in clinical trials, there was a demand for effective covid treatments. This provided an opportunity for criminals and illegal businesses to make a profit by selling purported treatments at an extortionate price.
At present there is a large outbreak of Monkeypox in many European countries including the UK who had its first case in May 2022.
