Manufacturing

Our manufacturing capabilities offer our patients and customers batch manufatured 'off the shelf' medicines with Certificates of Analysis for aditional quality assurance or as one off ‘specials' medicines with Certificates of Conformity to assure some key checks on the medicine have been carried out. Contract manufacture is also available.

Product portfolios

  • Oral Liquids
  • Capsules
  • Creams, Ointments and Gels
  • Suppositories, Pessaries and Enemas
  • Terminally Sterilised Products (Injections, Infusions and Topicals)
  • Aseptic Products

We offer support from an initial idea or request for a 'special' product, with formulation, chemical and physico-chemical testing through to the scale up for production, wholesaling, storage and distribution.

Contact us to discuss your ideas or requests.

Product related testing information:

For all non-sterile preserved products we advocate an in-use shelf life of 28 days based on our preservative efficacy testing and product knowledge. Please refer to the product specification for further information. For further information related to expiry dates for products used in different clinical areas please view the Welsh Pharmaceutical QA Quality Statement. Specifications are available on request from smpu@wales.nhs.uk.

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