Medicines: good manufacturing practice and good distribution practice
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Comply with good manufacturing practice (GMP) and good distribution practice (GDP), and prepare for an inspection.
Adapted edition
- Document type
- Reference Guide
- Format
- DOCX
- Pages
- 7
- Language
- English
- Version
- 1.0
- Updated
- 2026-09-16
- Category
- Safety & operations
- Licence
- Open Government Licence v3.0
Description
Comply with good manufacturing practice (GMP) and good distribution practice (GDP), and prepare for an inspection. Consult the original guidance for current legal and operational details.
Contents
- Overview
- Types of inspection
- Inspections under the risk-based compliance programme
- Product-related GMP inspections
- Triggered inspections
- Complete a compliance report
- The inspection
- Grading of inspection findings
- Critical deficiency
- Major deficiency
- Other
- Actions after the inspection
- Compliance escalation process
- Information sheets
- Common deficiencies found in GMP inspections
- Suspension of your licence
Source and licence
Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency
AttributionMedicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency, ‘Medicines: good manufacturing practice and good distribution practice’ (updated 13 May 2024), reused under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
ChangesNeutral text-only adaptation from the official GOV.UK Content API body: headings, paragraphs, ordered and unordered list items and clickable source-link destinations in an appendix preserved. Images, logos, page design, accessible-format request widgets and linked attachments excluded; normalised whitespace, invisible format marks and typography.
Version history
- v1.016/09/2026