Quality Assurance or Quality Control? This article outlines the importance of these functions and areas where there may be some overlap.

The focus of audits : as a pharmaceutical trainer, auditor and consultant I meet a lot of auditors and look at audit mechanisms a great deal. My impression is that the focus is not always right.

No matter what type of audit you are involved in it is essential that it starts and finishes well. Opening and closing meetings offer the forum to do this. A well run and professional opening meeting sets the scene for the audit and, if done well, creates a great first impression. Likewise, a well run closing meeting draws the audit to a close in a professional and controlled manner.

This article lists a number of common basic audit findings and the corresponding clause in EU GMP that is relevant. Readers should note that there is often some repetition in GMP, so I have tried to find the best single clause.

News Update – traditional classes to complement our ‘live online interactive’ format; new January date for Lead Auditor course; new versions of our online courses.

Recent analysis of over 500 delegates who completed our online GMP courses in the last 6 months showed the course is very effective and with the approval from the RSC of our two new versions for QA and Engineering personnel this course is set to be of increasing value to Pharma organisations.

All of our training courses are now being delivered using our ‘live online interactive” format. Making the transition away from classroom delivery has been challenging especially for the team delivering our highly successful and intensive 5-day Pharmaceutical GMP Lead Auditor course. But the reviews in this article show how we have risen to that challenge.

Following a recent announcement by the MHRA this article highlights the importance of the RPi role after the transition period has finished and the RPi training available from Inspired Pharma