Chris Fox – General Manager, Amgen UK & Ireland
Christine (Chris) Fox, VP and general manager UK and Ireland at Amgen, two months into her first country manager position and first time in a role outside of North America,…
Address: 151 Buckingham Palace Road, Victoria, London, SW1W 9SZ, United Kingdom
Tel: +44 (0)20 3080 6000
The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) was set up in April 2003 from a merger of the Medicines Control Agency and the Medical Devices Agency. The MHRA is the government agency which is responsible for ensuring that medicines and medical devices work, and are acceptably safe. The MHRA is an executive agency of the Department of Health.
Our main activities are:
X assessing the safety, quality and efficacy of medicines, and authorising their sale or supply in the UK for human use
X overseeing the UK Notified Bodies that audit medical device manufacturers
X operating post-marketing surveillance and other systems for reporting, investigating and monitoring adverse reactions to medicines and adverse incidents involving medical devices and taking any necessary action to safeguard public health, for example through safety warnings, removing or restricting the availability of products or improving designs
X operating a proactive compliance programme for medical devices
X operating a quality surveillance system to sample and test medicines and to address quality defects, monitoring the safety and quality of imported unlicensed medicines and investigating Internet sales and potential counterfeiting of medicines
X regulating clinical trials of medicines and medical devices
X monitoring and ensuring compliance with statutory obligations relating to medicines and medical devices through inspection, taking enforcement action where necessary;
X promoting good practice in the safe use of medicines and medical devices
X managing the General Practice Research Database (GPRD) and the British Pharmacopoeia (BP) and contributing to the development of performance standards for medical devices; offering scientific, technical and regulatory advice on medicines and medical devices
X providing the public and professions with authoritative information to enable informed dialogue on treatment choices. These activities are supported by our ten divisions who are also responsible for: information management
X providing executive support services; human resources; and finance.
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