Results 1-20 of 100 for medicines act 1968

Written Answers — Health: Cosmetics: Health Hazards (5 Nov 2009)

Mike O'Brien: The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) deals with skin-whitening products that contain cortico-steroids as this makes such a product a medicine by definition and therefore subject to the controls of the Medicines Act 1968 and associated legislation. Hydroquinone and mercuric iodide in skin-whitening products are controlled under Cosmetics (Safety) Regulations 2008, as...

Pernicious Anaemia (4 Nov 2009) has video

Madeleine Moon: ...caused by a lack of vitamin B12. Vitamin B12 cannot be produced or stored in the body, and deficiency is caused by a failure to absorb vitamin B12 from the diet. Vitamin B12 is vital for the manufacture of new red blood cells. When it is in short supply, red blood cells are produced in smaller numbers, are abnormally large in size—megaloblastic—and do not last as long as they...

[John Cummings in the Chair] — Thalidomide (4 Nov 2009)

Richard Taylor: ...arguments about the failure of regulatory reform, and I am not sure that we will get much further on that. The hon. Member for Banbury (Tony Baldry) drew attention to the lack of precedent. In fact, there is a precedent. People who received contaminated blood were given that blood before it was recognised as a problem. This is the same sort of issue: thalidomide was prescribed before it...

Written Answers — House of Lords: Health: Botox (5 Oct 2009)

Baroness Thornton: Botulinum toxin products such as Botox and Vistabel are classed as medicines and are regulated under the Medicines Act 1968 and related secondary legislation. The cosmetic use of these products is outside their licensed indications. Importation of unlicensed products, without notification to the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency, would be illegal. The level of production of...

Written Answers — Justice: Pharmacy (9 Sep 2009) See 1 other result from this answer

Tom Watson: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice how many pharmacists have been prosecuted for incorrectly dispensing prescription medication under the Medicines Act 1968 in each of the last 10 years.

Written Answers — Health: Pharmacy: Crime (2 Jul 2009) See 1 other result from this answer

Lindsay Hoyle: To ask the Secretary of State for Health if he will bring forward legislative proposals to repeal the provisions of the Medicines Act 1968 which make a dispensing error by a pharmacist a criminal offence.

Written Answers — Health: Pharmacy: Crime (29 Jun 2009) See 1 other result from this answer

Oliver Letwin: To ask the Secretary of State for Health if he will bring forward legislative proposals to decriminalise dispensing errors by pharmacists under the Medicines Act 1968.

Written Answers — Health: Thalidomide (29 Jun 2009)

Gillian Merron: ...Distillers also undertook testing on thalidomide before its introduction to the UK market. Prior to the thalidomide tragedy, there was no formal drug regulation system in place to monitor the safety of medicines in the UK. As a result of the tragedy, a complete review of the machinery for marketing, testing and regulating drugs was initiated, including enactment of the Medicines Act 1968,...

Public Bill Committee: Health Bill [Lords]: New Clause 11 (25 Jun 2009) See 2 other results from this clause

Decriminalisation of pharmaceutical errors ‘(1) The Medicines Act 1968 is amended as follows. (2) In section 67 (Offences under part III) after “sections 52, 58, 63;” leave out “64”. (3) In section 122 (Warranty as defence) in subsection (2) after “section 63(b)”, leave out “sections 64 and” and insert “section”.’.—(Mr. Stephen...

Health Food Products (Channel Islands) (5 May 2009)

Brian Iddon: I shall call it a steroid, Mr. Wilshire, which is a class C drug in this country, believe it or not. Another such ingredient, which I can pronounce, is melatonin, which is categorised as a medicine here. Another aspect of the problem is that some products are marketed with illegal claims, including medicinal claims. The use of unsubstantiated medicinal claims is especially worrying because it...

Written Answers — Health: Dimethyl Fumarate (29 Apr 2009)

Dawn Primarolo: Dimethyl Fumarate is not licensed as a medicine in the United Kingdom. The Medicines Act 1968 allows clinicians to use unlicensed medicinal products in the treatment of patients. Prescribing of unlicensed products does not require any authorisation from the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA). MHRA Guidance Note 14, "The supply of unlicensed relevant medicinal products...

Health Bill [HL]: Report (1st Day) (Continued) (28 Apr 2009)

Lord Morris of Manchester: ...risk as "hypothetical". Specifically, we need to know the department's current figure for the number of patients treated with blood taken from variant CJD-infected donors. We need also to know what action Ministers have taken since the post-mortem on the implications of its findings. Further, how do they now assess the risk facing patients treated with blood taken from such donors, and...

Health: Contaminated Blood Products — Debate (23 Apr 2009)

Lord Morris of Manchester: ...to a report of landmark importance to a small and stricken community of congenitally disabled people for whom acquaintance with grief—recurrent and abject grief—is an inescapable fact of life. Already disabled by a rare, life-long blood disorder requiring continuous medical treatment, haemophilia patients have twice been infected en masse by contaminated blood and blood...

Written Answers — House of Lords: Drugs: Clonazepam (20 Apr 2009)

Baroness Thornton: Clonazepam belongs to the class of medicines known as benzodiazepines. When benzodiazepines were introduced into the market in the United Kingdom there was not a formal system of medicines regulation. In 1971 after implementation of the Medicines Act 1968, all medicines were given a licence of right, and these licences were reviewed over time by the Committee on Review of Medicines (CRM) and...

Thalidomide Victims (31 Mar 2009)

Dawn Primarolo: ...my hon. Friend's conclusion about the history of thalidomide. It is shocking nowadays to think that a drug so inadequately tested could have been prescribed to pregnant women purely on the manufacturer's testament that it could "be given with complete safety to pregnant women and nursing mothers without adverse effect on mother or child". We can all appreciate that such a situation could...

Health: Thalidomide — Question (10 Mar 2009)

Lord Darzi of Denham: ...of drugs were different from those at the moment. We should recognise the tremendous amount of work that has gone into the marketing, testing and regulation of drugs, as encapsulated in the Medicines Act 1968, from which society has benefited greatly.

Written Answers — Health: NHS: Standards (13 Jan 2009)

Dawn Primarolo: The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) licences facilities that manufacture, assemble and/or import medicinal products for human use. The holder of a manufacturer's licence may use a contract laboratory approved by MHRA for the testing of their medicinal products. A quality control laboratory, which is performing analysis of medicinal products for a licensed...

Written Answers — Health: Departmental Advisory Bodies (17 Dec 2008)

Ben Bradshaw: ...is a compelling need for confidentiality, such as commercially sensitive information. The following ANDPBs publish their minutes on their websites: Advisory Board on Registration of Homoeopathic Medicines http://www.mhra.gov.uk/Committees/Medicines advisorybodies/AdvisoryBoardontheRegistrationof HomoeopathicProducts/Minutes/index.htm Advisory Committee on Antimicrobial Resistance and...