The MHRA papers - an Introduction

It is time for very serious work - after Christmas

In our Christmas easy, easy quiz

The culture of secrecy at the MHRA

We made a (nearly) light-hearted reference to the minutes of the MHRA’s ​​Commission On Human Medicines (CHM) COVID-19 Vaccines Benefit Risk Expert Working Group meetings between 25 August 2020 and 25 May 2021.

Festive lights were on, Carl was playing golf round the clock, Tom was digging his way to Australia, and everyone was making merry.

However, we did warn, “TTE readers should be aware that we are reviewing 45 PDFs related to secret squirrelling and will report on them.”

We have been through all the available minutes, which appeared on the UK Government website thanks to a FOI request. Their content is very serious in parts, including the secret squirrel bits we made fun of. While Tom was looking at the US Congress review of the pandemic, Carl got to work on extracting the MHRA papers. He then very kindly passed the parcel to Tom, saying, “You write them up. I am going golfing.”

After Christmas, we will serialise the bits we think are important, hyperl…