Law Y2S2 Flashcards
Where is legislation for medicines set out?
In HMR 2012
What does Part 3 of HMR deal with?
Manufacturing and wholesale dealing
What does Part 4 of HMR deal with?
Requirement for authorisation
What does Part 5 of HMR deal with?
Marketing authorisations
What does Part 6 of HMR deal with?
Certification of homeopathic medicinal products
What does Part 7 of HMR deal with?
Traditional herbal registration
What does Part 9 of HMR deal with?
Borderline products
What does Part 10 of HMR deal with?
Exceptions to requirements for marketing authorisations etc
What are the main objectives of legislation?
- Ensure efficacy, safety and quality of the medicinal product
- withdrawal from use if any danger comes to light
Are authorised products and investigational products covered by legislation?
Yes
Define medicinal product
any substance or combination of substances which are:
- presented as having properties that prevent or treat disease in humans
- used by / administered to humans
Define authorised medicinal product
Product with marketing authorisation certificate of registration and traditional herbal registration
Define relevant medicinal product
A medicinal product that isn’t a registrable homeopathic or traditional herbal medicinal product BUT has marketing authorisation
Define borderline substance
Shouldn’t have any pharmacologically active substances or make medicinal claims.
Define medical device
Product covered by Medicinal Devices Regulation 2002 - includes sutures, dressings, contact lens care products.
What mark do medical devices have?
CE mark
What are the licences and certificated available?
- Marketing authorisation
- Certificate of registration
- Traditional herbal registration
- Manufacturers licence
- WDL
- Clinical trial authorisation
What do all relevant medicinal products require?
A marketing authorisation
In what circumstance was a ‘product licence of right’ granted?
Given to medicines that were on the market prior to Medicines Act 1968
Why is a MA required?
So that a product can be manufactured or assembles, imported or exported and sold or supplied. A medicinal product must be covered by a MA and held by the person responsible.
What must an application for a MA in the UK include?
- Name and permanent address
- Name of medicinal product
- Detailed specification of product and constituents
- Evaluation of potential environmental risks
- Methods of manufacture and quality control
- Data on - indications, compatibility and clinical studied
- Pharmacovigilence
- SPC, package and leaflet
- Legal category
What are the types of application for a MA?
- New active substances
- Abridged substances
- Biological and biotechnological products
What must the licensing authority be satisfied with?
- product is safe and efficacious
- facilities for manufacture and quality control are adequate to ensure conformity with specification
How long are MAs initially granted for?
5 years - need to be renewed on expiry
What records should holders of MAs keep?
- adverse products
- sales / supplies
- sources of all materials
Are most medicinal products with a MA licence for used in children?
No - most have only been tested in adults and so use in children is unlicensed
What is the new category of MA for children?
Paediatric Use Marketing Authorisation (PUMP)
What age range was Bucculam licensed for?
3months - 18y/o
used to treat severe convulsions and epileptic seizures
When was Bucculam licensed for children?
7th September 2011
What are the labelling requirements for relevant medicinal products?
- Legible, comprehensible and indelible
- English or English + other languages
- Braille on outer packaging for blind or partially sighted people
What are the Schedule 24 outer & immediate packaging information requirements?
- Name of medicinal product
- Strength and pharmaceutical form
- Target audience
- If it has up to 3 active substances, a common name for each active substance
- Statement of active substances in product given as number and words per dosage unit or according to administration form for a given volume of weight
- Pharmaceutical form & contents by weight, volume or doses of product
- A list of all excipients or a list of excipients known to give effect
- Method / ROA
- Space for prescribe dose to be indicated
- Warning that it should be kept out of children’s reach
- Special warning applicable to the product
- Expiry date in clear terms
- Any special storage precautions
- Precautions relating to disposal
- Name and address of holder of MA
- Number of MA
- Batch number
- Instructions for use if not POM
What is required for labelling blister packs?
- Name of product
- Strength and form
- Who product is for
- Name of active substances
- Name of MA holder
- Expiry date
- Batch number
What are the labelling requirements for paracetamol?
- Products that contain paracetamol should say that they contain paracetamol
- ’ do not take more than the label says. If you don’t better, go to GP’
What are the 4 types of manufacturers licence?
- Manufacturer licence
- Manufacturer ‘specials’ licence
- Manufacturer licence for investigational medicinal product
- Manufacturer licence exempt advanced therapy products
What does a manufacturer licence allow the holder to do?
Manufacturer and/or assemble medicinal products, including export to outside EEA countries and import licensed medicines from countries outside the EEA
Define manufacture
Process carried out in making the product but not dissolving, diluting, etc
Define assembly
Process of diving, packaging and presenting
Can a product be manufactured without a marketing authorisation?
No - has to be covered by a MA held by the manufacture or by a person ordering the product from the manufacturer
What is specials licence for?
Unlicensed medicines or imported unlicensed medicinal products from outside the EEA
Are pharmacies are exempt from requiring a specials licence?
Yes - they can prepare extemporaneous products
The law allows manufacture and supply of medicinal products for patients with special clinical needs…
True
Can chiropodists prescribe special medicinal products?
Yes (as a supplementary prescriber)
Who can prescribe specials?
Doctors, Dentists, NIPs, PIPs, Supplementary prescribers - pharmacist, nurse, midwife, chiropodist, radiographer, optometrist, dietician
What are the conditions for specials?
- Supply to appropriate person for use under supervision of pharmacist in a registered pharmacy, hospital or health centre
- No advertising
- Supervision & procedure should meet specified requirement
- Records should be available for inspection
- Manufacturer should hold specials licence
A prescriber can prescribe a ‘special’ if a licence medicinal product exists…
False
Wholesale supply goes directly to the patient…
False
What does wholesale dealing involve?
sale and supply of medicines by larger distributors to pharmacies and by pharmacies to GP surgeries for individual patients
A wholesale dealers licence allows the holder to wholesale P, PO, traditional herbal and GSL medicines…
True
A WDL allows the holder to import unlicensed medicinal products from countries outside the EEA
False - from inside EEA only
Who can a WDL holder distribute medicines to?
- Holder of a licence relating to those products
- Holder of equivalent EEA WL
- Person who can all products by retail or supply in circumstances corresponding to retail sale
- person who may lawfully administer those products
What conditions have to be complied with to hold a WDL?
Staff, premises, equipment & facilities must be adequate for handling, storage and distribution
Records be kept for specified time for recall
What is the minimum length of time that distribution records have to be kept for?
5 years
When are pharmacists exempt from licensing requirements?
When manufacture takes place on registered pharmacy premises and the manufacture is supervised
Medicinal products specially prepared for individuals have to have a licence…
False - exempt from licensing
Products manufactured for holders of authorisations are exempt from licensing…
True
When does Medicines Act 1968 allow counter prescribing?
Only if the patient is PRESENT in the pharmacy at the time of request
What is counter prescribing according to HMR 2012?
A pharmacist recommending a product made up by them
When is a licence not needed?
Practitioners Rx
Customers request for self administration or for someone in their care
Assembly in the pharmacy
Stock mixtures - preparations for dispensing
What are chemist nostrums?
Pharmacies own name product - they must be prepared on registered premises and must not be advertised
Doctors and dentists are allowed to prepare and assemble products for individual patients..
True
Nurses and midwives need a licence to assemble for individual patients…
False - they don’t need one
Do herbalists need a ML or MA?
No - the product is manufactured or assembled by a herbal practitioner
When can herbalists give out herbal remedies?
When the patient has been consulted, the herbalist used specialist judgement and on a registered premises
Does a manufacturer or MA holder need a licence to market products from licensed premises?
No
Group buying by retailer or practitioners needs a licences
False - only need a licence if the group is a separate company
When isn’t a WDL needed?
When importing products for a specific person or for a product to be exported without alteration
Do food and cosmetics needs a licence?
They are generally exempt from licensing under HMR 2012
When do food needs licences?
If said to be beneficial for a particular disease or are labelled with dosages
When do vitamins need licences?
- Oral administration with no particulars / directions
- Daily adult dose doesn’t exceed 2500 units for A, 25µg folic acid, 250 units D and 5µg cyanocobalamin
- Food with added vitamins >daily dosage
When do cosmetics need licences?
If they have any antibiotic, >0.004% hormones, hexachlorophane and >1% resorcinol
What is an advertisement of medicines?
Anything designed to promote the prescription, supply, sale or use of that product
Give examples of forms of advertising
Door to door visits Visits by medical sales reps Supple of samples Provision of inducements to prescribe / supply medicinal products by gift, offer or promise of any benefit / bonus Sponsorship of promotional meetings Sponsorship of sciencey people
MHRA are not allowed to look at advertisements before they are issued…
False - they are allowed. All MAs grants for new active substance have their promotional material vetted
When is vetting requested?
When a product is reclassified or for products that have breached regulations
Who handles advertising complaints?
MHRA and/or regulatory bodies, the outcome is published