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Search MHRA (GOV.UK)

Search and read MHRA (GOV.UK) records through the Assyro API: MHRA guidance pages, Drug Safety Update articles and medical safety alerts published on GOV.UK.

GEThttps://api.assyro.com/v1/sources/gov-uk-mhra/search

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Search and read MHRA (GOV.UK) records from your own code: MHRA guidance pages, Drug Safety Update articles and medical safety alerts published on GOV.UK. Published by Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (GOV.UK) (www.gov.uk/government/organisations/medicines-and-healthcare-products-regulatory-agency); answered from Assyro's copy, refreshed daily 04:00 UTC.

Attribution required: every record carries attribution. Show it wherever you show the data: "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0." See the terms.

Example: "What has MHRA said about valproate in Drug Safety Update?"

Search

GET https://api.assyro.com/v1/sources/gov-uk-mhra/search with any of these query parameters. Repeat a parameter for a list (?phase=PHASE2&phase=PHASE3). An unknown parameter is refused by name.

Search parameters

  • querystringrequired

    Words to find, e.g. "valproate pregnancy prevention" or "software as a medical device". Quoted phrases and OR work.

  • collectionstring

    Keep only one kind: guidance, drug-safety-update or safety-alerts. One of: guidance, drug-safety-update, safety-alerts.

  • dateFromstring

    Earliest first-published date (an alert's issue date), YYYY, YYYY-MM or YYYY-MM-DD.

  • dateTostring

    Latest first-published date (an alert's issue date), YYYY, YYYY-MM or YYYY-MM-DD.

  • sortstring

    'relevance' (default) or 'newest' for the most recently published first. One of: relevance, newest.

  • limitinteger

    Pages to return, default 8.

  • offsetinteger

    Skip this many results (for paging), default 0.

Each result is a record; read one in full with Get a record.

What a record holds

  • id, title, url: the source's identifier, its title and its page at the source, to verify it.
  • authority, publishedDate, version: who published it, when, and the edition read.
  • snippet and fields: the matching text and the source's own fields.
  • asOf: the day Assyro's copy of the source was read.
  • attribution: the attribution the licence requires.