Results 1-20 of 107 for medicines act 1968

Pharmacy Order 2010: Motion to Approve (1 Feb 2010) See 3 other results from this debate

Baroness Thornton: ...that operate from the ground floor of private dwellings with the upper floors or outside storage areas designated as living space. Inspectors have to ensure compliance with standards for storage of medicines that may be in those areas designated as private dwelling space. Access to storage areas may also cross into private dwellings via hallways, stairs and so on. The noble Baroness, Lady...

Scottish Parliament: Question Time — Scottish Executive — General Questions: Problem Drug Users (Naloxone) (28 Jan 2010)

Fergus Ewing: Anne McLaughlin has made exactly the right point. Naloxone is used to reverse the effects of opiate overdoses; therefore, we believe that it has the potential to save lives. The member is also correct to say that, for obvious reasons, those who may be subject to overdoses are often not in a position to administer naloxone to themselves to save their life. Under the Medicines Act 1968, no one...

Written Answers — House of Lords: Health: Contaminated Blood Products (19 Jan 2010)

Lord Morris of Manchester: To ask Her Majesty's Government what part Crown Immunity played in protecting the Blood Products Laboratory from legal proceedings for failing to comply with the Medicines Act 1968 to the hurt of haemophilia patients treated with contaminated NHS blood and blood products.

Written Ministerial Statements — House of Lords: Health: Thalidomide (18 Jan 2010)

Baroness Thornton: ...that many continue to endure, often on a daily basis. In the light of what happened, a complete review of the machinery for marketing, testing and regulating drugs was initiated, including the enactment of the Medicines Act 1968, which introduced further testing for medicines prior to licensing to ensure that they met acceptable standards of safety and efficacy.

Powers of Entry etc. Bill [HL]: Second Reading (15 Jan 2010)

Lord Scott of Foscote: ...things that I have referred to should not be tolerated unless done either with the consent of the owner or occupier or under the authority of an order of the court-a warrant. There are many primary Acts that provide, in entirely unexceptionable terms, for powers of entry of the sort that are acceptable. A recent example-indeed, it is not yet an Act-is the Cluster Munitions (Prohibition)...

Business of the House: Thalidomide Survivors (14 Jan 2010) has video See 2 other results from this debate

Mike O'Brien: ...that many continue to endure, often on a daily basis. In the light of what happened, a complete review of the machinery for marketing, testing and regulating drugs was initiated, including the enactment of the Medicines Act 1968, which introduced further testing for medicines prior to licensing to ensure that they met acceptable standards of safety and efficacy.

Written Answers — Environment Food and Rural Affairs: Farms: Inspections (5 Jan 2010)

Huw Irranca-Davies: The information is as follow: Rural Payments Agency (Basic Conditions) Regulations 1997 (SI 1997/189): Ancient Monuments and Archaeological Areas Act 1979 Animal Health Act 1981 Cattle Identification Regulations 2007 (SI 2007/529) Commission Regulation (EC) No. 509/1999 Commission Regulation (EC) No. 2772/95 Commission regulation (EC) No. 911/2004 Conservation (Natural Habitats, &c.)...

Contaminated Blood (Support for Infected and Bereaved Persons) Bill [HL]: Second Reading (11 Dec 2009)

Lord Morris of Manchester: ...of widows of infected patients in deciding whether they are eligible for financial help solely on the basis of when their husbands died, even where they died within two days of each other from exactly the same cause. The ending of that discrimination was one of the issues of longstanding concern to the haemophilia community strongly and repetitively emphasised in evidence to the Archer...

Scottish Parliament written answers — Health: Health (23 Nov 2009)

Nicola Sturgeon: Practitioners of herbalism and traditional Chinese medicine are already able to use licensed herbal medicines and this will continue. They are also able to use certain unlicensed herbal medicines currently exempted from various licensing requirements through the Medicines Act 1968, but European legislation may impact on this after 2011. This was highlighted as a factor for consideration in a...

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...