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Quality Management – The Role of the Qualified Person

Quality Management - Exploring the role of the Qualified Person

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Practical GMP & GDP training for pharma and biotech professionals — taught by senior PCS consultants who advise manufacturers on real GMP issues every week.

  • Language:
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  • 5 days in total

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This training contains:
  • Accreditation for openbaar apothekers (KNMP), 30 Accreditation points
  • Accreditation for ziekenhuisapothekers (NVZA), 30 Accreditation points
  • Lunch
  • Course dinner
  • Digital copy of materials
  • Training certificate
  • Certificate of competence
  • What you will be able to do after this course

    Identify elements of applicable GMP regulations and GMP expectations across the product life-cycle

    Understand current regulatory developments and their business impact,

    E.g., new regulations, the Falsified Medicines Directive (serialization) and significant issues that may impact the business

    (Data integrity, drug shortages and supply chain integrity),

    Apply the basic principles of quality management from a regulatory and business perspective

    Upcoming dates — pick a seat

    Quality Course Modules default to English, but will be in Dutch if all attendees are Dutch or Flemish-speaking.

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    About this course

    What this course covers

    This training provides insight into an integrated approach on quality management as a good business practice in the pharmaceutical and biotechnological industries and hospitals to safeguard the quality of their products. There will be a focus on the role and responsibilities of the Qualified Person (QP) as well as on legislation, guidelines and best practices. We will also discuss common challenges a QP encounters in his/her day-to-day activities. You will participate in a team to work out a case study in the period between the first and second training sessions.
     
    The Qualified Person watches over product quality while taking patient safety and product availability into account. This requires an in-depth understanding of the role and responsibilities of the Qualified Person. This training is divided into two parts: Block A and Block B. The total duration is five days.

    This training is of an advanced level. A basic level of GMP knowledge is required to attend this training. The training program is not designed to address the basic theoretical principles of GMP. The practical implication of the GMP principles, real-life cases and the role of the QP are the focus of this training. A Qualified Person is expected to be aware of a number of pre-approval elements: an overview of the product life-cycle, Toxicology and the Registration Dossier. The training is highly interactive. The program is offered as a combination of self-study, theory, and practical case studies. The self-study prior to the module consists of reading preparatory materials.

    Who this course is for

    Professionals in pharmaceutical and biotechnological industries, Professionals in institutions and CRO’s, Hospital pharmacists and Postgraduate students.

    The training is aimed at (young) professionals in non-clinical and clinical development of new medicinal products, production, packaging, Quality Control and Quality Assurance who are dealing with complex quality systems. The target audience needs to gain an in-depth understanding of these systems to improve quality management in their own organization.

    The training is an international training program in English and requires, at minimum, a Bachelor’s Degree level (HBO level in the Netherlands).

    This training is also suitable for openbaar apothekers and ziekenhuisapothekers, who will receive professional accreditation points.

    (University) Students

    Master's and PhD students get a discount of 25% per module/programme.

    What you take back to work

     •    Thorough understanding of the specific regulatory duties and responsibilities of senior management, functional leaders, the Qualified Person and Responsible Person.
    •    Insight into the integrated approach on Quality Management to safeguard product quality.
    Tools to realize and improve, pro-actively and on an ongoing basis, effective quality management across the various stages of the product lifecycle.

    Contents

    • Quality Management as a good business practice across the product life-cycle
    • Basic Principles of Quality Management
    • The specific regulatory role and responsibility of the Qualified Person
    • Quality Management System elements: deviation management, change control, RCA, validation & qualification, training and qualification of personnel, customer complaint management, audit systems and third-party operations
    • Similarities and differences between local (small) organizations and global (large) organizations
    • Current regulatory developments and (IGJ) inspection highlights
    • The critical impact of culture and behavior on compliance
    • Trending, Management Reviews and QP involvement
    • The Registration Dossier: it’s development, life-cycle and the role of the QP
    • Toxicology, including Health Based Exposure Limits
    • From development to clinical to commercial
    • QP experiences
    • Industry, hospital environment, international setting
    • Real-life challenges such as QP declarations and drug shortage prevention
    • Real-life case studies
    • Including participation in a team to work out a case study in the period between the first and second training sessions.

    Programme

    Quality Course modules

    This module is part of a series called: "Quality Management in Pharma and Biotech". This series is designed to give participants an in-depth understanding of the QP’s role and responsibilities. See the other modules in this series below.

    Module Date Length Price
    Next edition: 27/10/26 3d € 2719.00
    Next edition: 24/11/26 3d € 2719.00
    No dates planned 5d 0
    No dates planned 2d 0

    Practical Information

    Accreditation:
    • Openbaar Apothekers (KNMP), 30 Accreditation points
    • Ziekenhuisapothekers (NVZA), 30 Accreditation points
    Difficulty / Level:
    Group discounts:
    • 2 participants - 5%
    • 3 participants - 10%
    • 4 participants - 15%
    • 4 participants - 20%
    • 6+ participants - 25%

    Group discounts are only applicable when multiple participants register for the same course at the same time.

    Language (upcoming edition):
    • Some lectures/lessons may be in the secondary language. The primary language remains the dominant spoken/written language during the training.
    Learning form:
    Classroom
    Times:
    To be announced.
    Requires preparation:
    Yes.

    This module contains homework. The homework will be provided prior to the training.

    Includes exam:
    Yes.
    Exam price:
    €350.00 ex. VAT per participant.
    Notes to the course dinner:

    For Block A, the dinner is scheduled on day 1. For Block B, it is on day 2.

    Lecturers

    Your trainers are practising PCS consultants. They spend most of their week helping pharma manufacturers respond to real GMP findings, audits and inspections — and bring that experience straight into the classroom.

    Jolanda Muurman avatar

    Jolanda Muurman

    Docent

    Jolanda Muurman is a highly experienced GMP professional, former Qualified Person (QP) and traine...

    Anna Myra Koopmans avatar

    Anna Myra Koopmans

    Docent

    Anna-Myra Koopmans is a highly experienced GMP and sterile manufacturing professional with over 3...

    Christine Mitchell avatar

    Christine Mitchell

    Docent

    Christine Mitchell is a highly experienced Quality Assurance professional and consultant with ove...

    Reviews (154)

    4 out of 5 stars

    Based on 154 reviews

    Review data

    5 star reviews

    32%

    4 star reviews

    59%

    3 star reviews

    8%

    2 star reviews

    1%

    1 star reviews

    0%

    4 out of 5 stars

    Strong points (and why):

    Openes, solid discussions

    To be improved:

    Use the flip over more often to draw addative information

    Review:

    Thank you, come again

    Quinten - Qp in training

    5 out of 5 stars

    Strong points (and why):

    How interactive it is And practical. Not so theoretical as everyone can read the guidelines at home

    To be improved:

    As mentioned during the course, the validation part could be made into a workshop as well

    Shorouk - Head of QA for Cell Therapy

    4 out of 5 stars

    Strong points (and why):

    Expert opinion view.

    To be improved:

    Some topics are not interesting for a more experienced QA person (eg. CAPA or validation). Maybe it’s better to make a light QP course touching these topics.

    Anonymous - Anonymous

    4 out of 5 stars

    Strong points (and why):

    Loved the cases and workshops! Maybe one or two more during part a would make it more perfect

    Nelleke - Comp pharmacist

    4 out of 5 stars

    Strong points (and why):

    Interactieve training

    Glen van Balgooy - SCM Compliancy Manager

    5 out of 5 stars

    Strong points (and why):

    Interaction Case studies

    To be improved:

    Spreekvolume en snelheid Misschien een “ingangstestje” voor check homework

    Mirjam - Senior manifacturing support specialist (aka production pharmacist)

    4 out of 5 stars

    Strong points (and why):

    A lot of interaction/case studies

    Sander van de Kar - QA specialist / QP

    4 out of 5 stars

    Strong points (and why):

    The workshops and opportunity to ask questions to the IGJ

    To be improved:

    Sometimes it feels like the topics are jumps, like I am sometimes missing the connections between topics and the guidelines respectively.

    Selina Kranendonk - Master student

    5 out of 5 stars

    Strong points (and why):

    It was a nice mix of interactive and presentation of the course.

    To be improved:

    No, it was an very entertaining and informative course

    Ger Molenaar - QP

    4 out of 5 stars

    Strong points (and why):

    Extremely interactive, open 'safe' environment to discuss and make mistakes.

    To be improved:

    Consider microphone for presentation, dedicated space for workshop (teams to prep for presentations)

    Freek Blanken - Consultant

    4 out of 5 stars

    Strong points (and why):

    Lot of information, compact, nice workshops. Appreciate the IGJ presence. Engaged trainers.

    Els den Dekker - Aspiring QP

    4 out of 5 stars

    Strong points (and why):

    -The roleplay -Discussion with inspector -Workshops

    To be improved:

    -Better time management for guest speakers (if components have been discussed before, do not repeat them)

    Selina Kranendonk - Student, Leiden University

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