Our aims and objectives

Aims
Our aims are:

• Protecting public health through regulation, with acceptable benefit-risk profiles for medicines and devices.
• Promoting public health by helping people who use these products to understand their risks and benefits.
• Improving public health by encouraging and facilitating developments in products that will benefit people.

Objectives
Our strategic objectives are to:

• safeguard public health through our primary role in ensuring that the products we regulate meet required standards, that they work and are acceptably safe;
• carry out our communication role through the provision of accurate, timely and authoritative information to healthcare professionals, patients and the public;
• support research, ensuring through the application of Better Regulation principles that regulation does not stifle innovation;
• influence the shape of the future regulatory framework through use of our effective European and International relationships;
• run an organisation with a skilled and equipped workforce that is fit for the future.