Quality Leadership
If pharmaceutical companies are to meet the ever-increasing regulatory and business challenges they face in today's climate, they will need high calibre Quality Professionals throughout the organization to help the business meet and conquer these challenges and to act as change agents through periods of transition.
These Quality Professionals will need the following skills and attributes:
- A comprehensive knowledge and understanding of pharmaceutical legislation - domestic and international - and the compliance issues that face the company and all its staff
- A clear understanding of all the factors which can affect the intrinsic and extrinsic quality of a medicine and how these must be controlled during manufacture
- The ability to use this knowledge to assess risk (to the patient and to the business) and to take risk-based quality decisions
- The leadership skills to communicate decisions effectively, prevent or manage potential conflict and to manage change
The skills described above are essentially those required by the Qualified Person in Europe - someone nominated by the pharmaceutical company and formally authorised by the regulatory authorities as being legally responsible for the quality of each and every manufactured lot of medicine or clinical supplies. For the last 19 years, David Begg Associates has provided industry leading training to people wishing to become Qualified Persons and our reputation in this field is second to none. With our partner, the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow, Scotland, we have helped nearly 200 industry professionals to become Qualified Persons throughout Europe.
Quality Leadership Training: Our Pedigree
For the past 6 years, we have used our Qualified Person training experience to work with several US pharmaceutical companies to provide tailored, focused Quality Leadership training in-house for specially selected staff. The feedback from both delegates and senior management has been fantastic...
"We decided that our USA QA colleagues could benefit from the same formalized training as required for QPs in Europe. The results surpassed our expectations. The QA leaders who participated in the training have much greater confidence in their decision-making ability.
Following on from the webinar held on 8 July to launch our US Quality Leadership Program, click on 'More info' below to download the presentation delivered by Neil Wilkinson, Partner - please share with your colleagues.