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About MHRA
Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency regulates medicines, medical devices and blood components for transfusion in the UK.
We are the regulator of medicines, medical devices and blood components for transfusion in the UK.
We put patients first in everything we do, right across the lifecycle of the products we regulate. We rigorously use science and data to inform our decisions, enable medical innovation and to make sure that medicines and healthcare products available in the UK are safe and effective.
Our responsibilities are to:
We operate in a statutory framework set by HM Government, working within government and the wider health system to direct overall policy in our regulatory field.
These policies establish our role in securing public health improvements and gives us the powers to deliver against our corporate responsibilities.
We constantly strive for improvement in our field, and when we identify changes that will improve people’s access to safe, quality healthcare products, our recommendations are agreed by the Secretary of State.
