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Do you think the MHRA is doing an adequate job?

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Apr 05, 2024
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We have repeatedly expressed doubts about which side the former UK regulator (now facilitator) is on.

This is the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA). The MHRA is an executive agency of the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) responsible for regulating drugs and medical devices.

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We have done everything we can to expose some of the problems with the MHRA, from looking at the Yellow Card system of reporting potential harms to the inability to follow through with the investigation of deaths following exposure to Covid vaccines to the Chief Executive doing a bunk after telling MPs that death data by vaccine exposure was commercially confidential. 

Our concerns were consistent with those expressed by the All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) MPs on Pandemic Response and Recovery (see readings for the full list of posts).

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