This tenth edition of Dale and Appelbe's Pharmacy and Medicines Law (previously Dale and Appelbe's Pharmacy Law and Ethics) is your definitive guide to law relating to pharmacy and medicine practice in Great Britain. It covers law and professional regulation that all pharmacy and medicine professionals need to know.
There are important updates regarding the activities of the General Pharmaceutical Council, the recent consolidation of medicines regulations and what these changes mean to your practice. New content covers:
Human Medicines Regulations (HMRs) 2012
the role of the GPhC and its approach to Fitness to Practise
recent radical changes to the structure of the NHS.
All chapters have been updated by well-known experts from academia, professional and legal practice. As such, this book is an indispensable resource for anyone studying or practising in pharmacy and medicine and a reliable reference for lawyers and legal professionals interested in these areas.

1. Sources of Law
2. Human Medicines: Scope of Regulation
3. Human Medicines: The Licensing System
4. Human Medicines: Advertising
5. Pharmacy Businesses
6. Human Medicines: Pharmacy Medicines
7. Human Medicines: General Sale Medicines
8. Human Medicines: Prescription Only Medicines
9. Human Medicines: Exemptions from Controls
10. Human Medicines: Wholesale Dealing
11. Human Medicines: Sale and Supply of Homeopathic Medicines
12. Human Medicines: Herbal Medicines
13. Human Medicines: Prohibitions for Protection of the Purchaser
14. Human Medicines: Labelling, Packaging, Leaflets and Identification
15. Human Medicines: Pharmacopeias and Compendia
16. Veterinary Medicines
17. Controlled Drugs
18. Poisons
19. Alcohol and Denatured Alcohol
20. Chemicals
21. Miscellaneous Legislation Affecting Pharmacy
22. Pharmacy Regulation
23. Professional Conduct
24. Fitness to Practise
25. Regulation of Other Health Professions
26. NHS Law and Organisation
Appendix 1: Medicines Act 1968: Section 104 and 105 Orders
Appendix 2: Prohibition of Non-medicinal Antimicrobial Substances
Appendix 3: Patient Group Directions
Appendix 4: Misuse of Drugs Act 1971: Controlled Drugs Classified for Levels of Penalties
Appendix 5: Misuse of Drugs Regulations 2001 (as amended): Controlled Drugs Classified for Regimes of Control
Appendix 6: The Poisons List Order 1982
Appendix 7: The Poisons Rules 1982
Appendix 8: Classification and Labelling of Chemicals
Appendix 9: Standards for Registered Pharmacies September 2012
Appendix 10: GPhC Referral Criteria from the Investigating Committee
Appendix 11: GPhC Prosecution Policy
Appendix 12: GPhC Indicative Sanctions Guidance