About us

Welcome to the About us section.

• The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) is the government agency which is responsible for ensuring that medicines and medical devices work, and are acceptably safe.
• No product is risk-free. Underpinning all our work lie robust and fact-based judgements to ensure that the benefits to patients and the public justify the risks.
• We keep watch over medicines and devices, and we take any necessary action to protect the public promptly if there is a problem. 
• We aim to make as much information as possible publicly available.
• We enable greater access to products, and the timely introduction of innovative treatments and technologies that benefit patients and the public.
• We encourage everyone - the public and healthcare professionals as well as industry - to tell us about any problems with a medicine or medical device, so that we can investigate and take any necessary action.

A full explanation of what we do and how we do it is in our publication:
› 'Medicines & Medical Devices Regulation: What you need to know'