Welcome to the Media Centre
This section provides details of new items added to the site as well as a full archive of our press releases and statements.
The opening hours for the Press Office are Monday to Friday between 9:00 and 17:00.
The Press Office
5th Floor
151 Buckingham Palace Road
Victoria
LONDON
SW1W 9SZ
Main telephone: 020 3080 7651
Out of hours: 07770 446 189
press.office@mhra.gsi.gov.uk
For urgent calls outside these press office hours please contact the duty press officer on : 07770 446 189.
We now have a Twitter channel for press releases and news statements, giving you another way to find out the latest news from the MHRA in real time.
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Press enquiries should be made through the Press Office.
Latest news and press releases
18 May 2012 | Non executive directors sought for the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency
The Secretary of State for Health is seeking to appoint up to four non executive directors (NEDs) to the MHRA.
14 May 2012 | Press statement: MHRA statement on Earl Howe review
The MHRA has published a statement on the Earl Howe review.
09 May 2012 | Reduction in deaths involving co-proxamol after withdrawal from UK market
A study published in the journal ‘Public Library of Science (PLoS) Medicine’ has found that during the six years following the withdrawal of the analgesic co-proxamol in the UK in 2005, there was a major reduction in poisoning deaths involving this medicine, without apparent significant increase in deaths involving other analgesics.
02 May 2012 | Sports and body building supplements
Products related to sports and body building frequently come to the MHRA’s attention and are often found to be unacceptable for sale in the UK even though they may be legitimate products in other countries.
01 May 2012 | Press release: MHRA seizes more than £25 million of medicine supplied illegally in the last five years as new anti-counterfeiting strategy launches
As the MHRA launches its second anti-counterfeiting strategy, the UK medicines regulator reveals it has seized more than £25 million of counterfeit and stolen medicines in the last five years.
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