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There are Two members of staff that work at W.E,Howden that are Suitably Qualified Persons  (SQP) registered with the Animal Medicines Training and Regulation Authority (AMTRA).

An SQP is a category of professionally qualified persons who are entitled to prescribe and/or supply certain veterinary medicinal products under the Veterinary Medicines Regulations.  It is the duty of an SQP to ensure that the statutory requirements in respect of the prescription and/or supply of certain veterinary medicinal products are respected. The SQP is responsible for ensuring this irrespective of how the product is supplied, e.g. supply from a registered retail premises, postal supply, from a website etc.

An SQP is entitled to prescribe and/or supply specific categories of product that fall within the scope of the qualification they have obtained and the registration they hold (see below).   The range of veterinary medicinal products available for SQPs to prescribe and/or supply fall within the following distribution classifications
  • NFA-VPS (Non-Food Animal – Veterinarian, Pharmacist, SQP)
  • AVM-GSL (Authorised Veterinary Medicine –General Sales List
  • R-SQP- all VPS medicines
  • G-SQP- farm & equine medicines only
  • K-SQP – farm & companion animal medicines only
  • E-SQP- Equine & companion animal medicines only
  • L-SQP- farm animal medicines only
  • J-SQP – equine medicines only
  • C-SQP – companion animal medicines only
The list of registered SQP’s can be found at http://www.vmd.defra.gov.uk/registers/sqpregister.aspx
Useful Links
  • Adverse Event (Suspected Adverse Reaction Scheme) yellow form
  • Product Information database
  • Making a complaint to the VMD
Complaints regarding Veterinary Medicines
Customers should only make a complaint to The Veterinary Medicines Directorate if their complaint relates to a veterinary medicine and they have already complained to the W.E Howden and not received a satisfactory reply.  A link to their website and contact details can be found here http://www.vmd.defra.gov.uk/business/contact.aspx

Help and Support:

Responsible qualified persons.    Mrs Clare Murray-Zmijewski QE-8629. 

To check these persons qualifications please go to following link: https://www.vmd.defra.gov.uk/registers/sqpregister.aspx

To check our premises are registered please go to the following link: http://vmd.defra.gov.uk/registers/

If you have any complaints regarding our Responsible Qualified Persons please contact the following: The Secretary General, AMTRA, Unit 1c, Woolpit Business Park
Woolpit, Bury St Edmunds, IP30 9UP or Email [email protected].

If your Pet has an adverse reaction to a medicine supplied please contact the following: https://www.vmd.defra.gov.uk/adversereactionreporting/Product.aspx?SARType=Animal

For Product information on Animal Medicines please use the following link: https://www.vmd.defra.gov.uk/ProductInformationDatabase/

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