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MHRA Drug & Device Safety Alerts

1,501 individual alerts 447 medicines recalls & defect notices 766 weekly / monthly index pages Oct 2009 – Jul 2026

Drug safety updates, medicines recalls, device safety information and field safety notices published by the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency. Source: MHRA alerts and recalls on GOV.UK.

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Individual alerts by type
Index pages excluded.
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Individual MHRA alerts by type · full collection, excluding index pages
Alert typeIndividual alerts
Drug Safety Update713
Class 1 Medicines Recall6
Class 2 Medicines Recall159
Class 3 Medicines Recall68
Class 4 Medicines Defect Information179
Company-Led Medicines Recall35
Device Safety Information21
Medical Device Alert40
National Patient Safety Alert11
MHRA Safety Roundup16
Unclassified253

The MHRA regulates medicines and medical devices in the UK and publishes safety communications on GOV.UK in two streams: the monthly Drug Safety Update bulletin, and Alerts and recalls for drugs and medical devices. This page holds 2,267 of those publications, issued between October 2009 and July 2026.

MHRA classes a medicines recall by the hazard the defect presents: Class 1 life-threatening or serious, Class 2 could cause illness or mistreatment, Class 3 unlikely to cause harm, and Class 4 a caution in use rather than a recall, with the product staying available. A device notice is published as Device Safety Information, or, until 2021, as a Medical Device Alert.

What is not here. We hold each publication's title, type, date and link, not its text: read the alert on GOV.UK for the affected products and the actions MHRA asks for. An alert names a medicine or device and a clinical audience, not an organisation, so no alert on this page is linked to an NHS trust or other responsible body. The weekly “Field Safety Notices” pages are MHRA's own index of the notices manufacturers issued that week, not single alerts, and are counted separately above.