Dale and Appelbe's Pharmacy and Medicines Law Thirteenth Edition

The new 13th edition of Dale and Appelbe’s Pharmacy and Medicines Law is the essential guide to pharmacy and medicines law in Great Britain. It covers law and professional regulation and is firmly established as the definitive student textbook and reference work on this subject.

This edition has been extensively revised to include:

• New chapters on hospital pharmacy and online pharmacy
• Expanded coverage of manufacturing and clinical trials
• Addition of new case law to many of the chapters
• Topical issues are covered and illustrated by action taken by regulators

Changes in the law since the 12th edition, including:

• Regulations governing veterinary medicines.
• Many changes resulting from Brexit, and the Windsor Framework which came into force on 1 January 2025.
• New legal duties of superintendent pharmacists and responsible pharmacists.
• Chief pharmacists.
• Original pack dispensing.
• New case law on pharmacist supervision.
• Medical examiner.

From Foreword in the new edition “Pharmacy has an honourable tradition as keeper of the health professions' body of knowledge and professional conscience when it comes to medicines and the complex laws governing their safe and effective use. This new, 13th edition of Dale and Appelbe's Pharmacy and Medicines Law provides essential underpinning for this unique and enduring aspect of the pharmacy professions' vocation” Duncan Rudkin, General Pharmaceutical Council, April 2025