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The Two Changes MHRA Should Make so That Medicines Are Actually Safe

by Nick Hunt
8 July 2023 11:00 AM

I am one of the authors of the Perseus Report. In the House of Commons last week we presented the report to the Covid Vaccine Damage All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) at the invitation of Sir Christopher Chope MP.  While we were waiting to go in, I was asked, “If you were in charge of the MHRA, what one thing would you change to stop the Covid vaccine debacle happening again?”

Good question. The Perseus Report documented a whole range of MHRA’s regulatory failures, so what to pick? I thought I’d share my answer – you never know, someone in a position of power over MHRA might actually read this!

Actually, I gave myself the liberty of picking two, not one. Because I think that, together, they would at least provide a safety net which currently doesn’t exist.

First, for every medicine at the point of licensing, MHRA should be required to predetermine the rate of tolerable fatal and serious adverse events (SAEs) for that particular medicine. Other safety-critical sectors do it. If the actual rate of SAEs in practice exceeds that threshold, use of that medicine has to be suspended pending detailed review. Again, that’s how other safety-critical sectors do it. What’s MHRA’s excuse?

The MHRA will say it’s difficult – we don’t know how many administrations of each medicine there are. Well, set up a process so that you do know – it’s important.

Then its officials may say that it can be dangerous to stop certain medicines once someone is taking them. So, continue existing prescriptions (with the informed consent of the patient) but suspend new prescriptions.

They may say, “We’ll never get the manufacturer to agree a figure”.  Who cares what the manufacturer thinks – you’re the watchdog (oops, I forgot, you’re an ‘enabler’ now).

They might say, “But that will possibly mean repeated stop-starts, and public confidence will suffer”. Au contraire, MHRA. If I read it correctly, the Covid vaccine saga has already significantly reduced the confidence of a large proportion of the public and they’d actually be relieved that MHRA had finally got a grip.

But, MHRA people may say, the NHS would end up with stocks of unusable drugs.  Oh dear – is that more important than continuing with unsafe drugs? Get a refund from the manufacturer.

Then they’d say, aha, it’s not just about risk, there’s benefit to consider, too. Okay, so have a predetermined benefit-risk ratio for each medicine – either instead of, or as well as, the tolerable rate of SAEs. Indeed, MHRA is fond of saying “the benefit outweighs the risk” – well then, define it quantitatively at the point of licensing. Then when potential problems emerge, we all know where we are instead of MHRA just insisting that the benefit outweighs the risk without actually quantifying it.

They’ll probably think of of other reasons I haven’t thought of but I’m confident there’ll be answers to all of them. All I know is that it’s shocking that the MHRA (and other regulators) been allowed to get away on this issue for so long.

The second essential change I’d make is to introduce personal delegations of safety to individuals in MHRA. People who are suitably qualified, experienced and trained should have personal responsibility for signing off a medicine as safe and retaining responsibility for decisions if and when problems arise in practice. In contrast, people in MHRA assess medicines for licensing in groups and they decide in groups what action to take in response to subsequent problems. No-one takes personal responsibility. When problems do occur, I picture them all looking at each other and saying, “Oh dear, perhaps we should wait for a bit more data”. “Yes, good idea, let’s commission some research.” In my job, I had a personal letter of safety delegation. I signed the licence declaring explosive items safe for the Armed Forces to use. I felt like I would end up in court if I got it wrong. I once had to ground a fleet of one aircraft type. I had to introduce limitations on use pending investigation. I had to raise the red card with one weapon system when the Generals shouted me down: “We’re in the middle of a war”. I invited them to take responsibility (in writing) for continuing. They declined.

Safety management isn’t rocket science. In all honesty, it’s beyond me why these two features, which are considered best practice in all other safety-critical sectors, aren’t already in use in medicine safety.

Until Nick retired a few years ago, he was a Senior Civil Servant in the Ministry of Defence responsible for the safety and effectiveness of ammunition used by the Armed Forces. He is co-author of the Perseus Group report on U.K. drugs regulator the MHRA.

Stop Press: The Perseus Group Twitter account @perseusgroup_ and Nick’s account @nickhunt5 were both blocked yesterday by the MHRA @MHRAgovuk. Was it something they said?

Tags: Christopher ChopeCovid Vaccine Damage APPGCOVID-19MHRASafetySide-effectsVaccine

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Dinger64
Dinger64
1 year ago

So much for chain of custody, proper channels! Whats the point?
What a place this fecking world is becoming!

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DomH75
DomH75
1 year ago
Reply to  Dinger64

Yes, the corridors of power have become a tyranny of ignorant people who shout down critical thinkers and people who really know about things.

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JaneDoeNL
JaneDoeNL
1 year ago

Funny, the word that comes to my mind is ‘criminal’, but hey-ho – potato, potatoe, negligent, criminal – if only they really would call the whole thing off.

Israel admitted it didn’t keep track of AEs, the FDA and CDC are playing silly beggars, continually saying the other institution is the one who is supposed to keep track, the German authorities admit they didn’t bother to keep track of AEs, now the UK. And yet they still keep trying to shove this poison into people, despite the fact it clearly does not work.

There really needs to be a reckoning.

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For a fist full of roubles
For a fist full of roubles
1 year ago

Maybe it doesn’t do it because it doesn’t want to know the answer, or more accurately has a good idea of the answer but doesn’t want it to become public knowledge.

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Less government
Less government
1 year ago
Reply to  For a fist full of roubles

I would say that the later is highly likely. All of these regulators are obfuscating the truth to keep their paymasters happy. To hell with the repercussions and consequences of their lies.

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transmissionofflame
transmissionofflame
1 year ago

Why would they have such a process? None of the actions taken during “covid” were anything to do with public health.

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Mogwai
Mogwai
1 year ago
Reply to  transmissionofflame

The ‘died suddenly’ epidemic continues in a very localized and ‘unexpected’ fashion, however. Will the lethal infection spread to other areas of the UK? Dicktator Khant is said to be ”baffled”.

https://twitter.com/CartlandDavid/status/1701663726154264850

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transmissionofflame
transmissionofflame
1 year ago
Reply to  Mogwai

Just chatting to an acquaintance with a diesel just too old for the ULEZ cutoff, great car, nothing wrong with it, family and friends inside the zone, she will have to sell it at a huge loss or pay £12.50 every trip she makes to see anyone. Hopefully another person waking up, hopefully ULEZ proves to be a big own goal for the Satanists.

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CircusSpot
CircusSpot
1 year ago

I am sure they have a process as why would the jab batches differ from deadly to placebo. Someone is monitoring this v closely especially those poor medics and young people who were forced to have the jab.

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transmissionofflame
transmissionofflame
1 year ago
Reply to  CircusSpot

I read about a study I think in Denmark or Holland that showed huge variation in adverse events between batches, think that was independently undertaken. Not aware of anything like that being done here. Nobody I know who has been jabbed seems remotely worried about it – I doubt they are aware of any of this info.

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huxleypiggles
huxleypiggles
1 year ago
Reply to  transmissionofflame

“I doubt they are aware of any of this info.”

And therein lies the problem tof. Too many bloody muppets who know they have been conned but still won’t listen to us let alone do their own research.

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transmissionofflame
transmissionofflame
1 year ago
Reply to  huxleypiggles

Indeed, though I must admit I am somewhat squeamish about this: “hey there friend/relative, did you know that those jabs you’ve had are slowly, silently killing you and there’s nothing you can do about it?”. I’m not worried about losing friends – goodness knows I’ve lost plenty of “friends” – just don’t want to ruin someone’s life. But perhaps you could argue it’s not my decision to make and they should know what I think to be the truth.

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CircusSpot
CircusSpot
1 year ago
Reply to  transmissionofflame

Prof Yeadon revealed that the jab batches could not be so different unless designed to be different as the drug industry is based on regulation and control so a paracetamol tablet is the same formula, otherwise no one would buy them.
The scam is not Covid but the jabs.

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transmissionofflame
transmissionofflame
1 year ago
Reply to  CircusSpot

What he says sounds plausible, however I am not sure what the motivation would be for doing such a thing. I can think of three scenarios: 1) You want to make £££££s and you don’t care how, so you are negligent. 2) You want to kill everyone so you make almost all of the batches dangerous. 3) You want to kill everyone but not be “caught” so you make the jabs kill people slowly over time, but you make all the batches do this.
Perhaps making some batches much more dangerous was part of some experiment?

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CircusSpot
CircusSpot
1 year ago
Reply to  transmissionofflame

I think it is 3) and you kill people over time as it is not so obvious. The batches are the control as you need to let some people survive. Of course those behind the scam need those placebo batches to show, on air, how safe the jabs are which indicates to me how many people must be aware of what is happening.

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transmissionofflame
transmissionofflame
1 year ago
Reply to  CircusSpot

Possibly. I cannot recall what that study I am referring to thought about the proportion of bad batches was.

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CircusSpot
CircusSpot
1 year ago
Reply to  transmissionofflame

The figures would be easy to gather as each National database records patient ID no against batch number. The fact it is silent indicates the scam.

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Miss Dolly
Miss Dolly
1 year ago

As a researcher by background, I looked carefully at the trial protocols and accompanying documents and I could not see any mechanism for ongoing monitoring. As this was a new experimental injection being rolled out after 6 weeks and the control group had been intentionally contaminated, it rang alarm bells to say the least.

I could see no way that adverse events could be recorded and matched up with batch numbers. Which is what would be necessary if one cared about patient safety.

And the yellow card system is wholly inadequate, as we already know.

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MikeAustin
MikeAustin
1 year ago

I have attached the latest MHRA figures summarised by age group. More details https://t.me/mikes_stuff/1294.

For the age group 10-19, there have been 17 deaths reported to MHRA.

ONS figures for the so-called ‘pandemic’ years 2020-2021, for the age group 10-19:
2,059 (100%) all-cause deaths
61 (3.0%) deaths after a positive covid test
2 (0.1%) deaths due to covid alone

It is abundantly clear that the jabs are many times more deadly than covid. How can anyone in organisations such as the MHRA sleep at night? Why on earth did they not blow the whistle right at the start?

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Alan
Alan
1 year ago

The MHRA is owned and paid for by Big Pharma. They are doing what they are paid to do and it is not to serve and protect us.

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JohnnyDollar
JohnnyDollar
1 year ago

Oh dont forget to say that it is NOT a conspiracy But just a coincidence!!

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