Russell McVeagh
The Government has recently announced its plan to modernise the regulation of medicines and medical devices by replacing the Medicines Act 1981 with a new Medical Products Bill (Bill). It has also decided that natural health products would be regulated under a standalone bill, yet to be developed. These announcements are a further key step in implementing the coalition agreements’ commitments to replace the current outdated legislation for medicines and medical devices, and to repeal the Therapeutic Products Act 2023 (TPA), which was considered to be too heavy handed for some products.