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Keep up your continued professional development and improve your skills and processes with NSF's various pharmaceutical technical courses.

NSF’s technical training covers a range of key topics for pharmaceutical manufacturers.

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Instructor-Led Courses

GMP for Clinical Trials Manufacture and Supply
Keeping up with the changing legislation for clinical trials provides challenges for all those working with investigational medicinal products.
Medicinal Chemistry & Therapeutics
The medicinal chemistry and therapeutics training course is essential knowledge for QPs and those working with pharmaceuticals. This intensive course provides an understanding of the technical terminology, demystifying reference material from patient information leaflets to data sheets.
Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients
This Active Substances (AS) and Excipients training course gives a unique insight into the regulatory expectations associated with producing both chemically synthesized and biological/biotech ASs. The course also provides insight and expertise on managing global AS supply chains, vendor quality assurance and “how to audit” AS facilities.
Mathematics and Statistics
There are many training courses on statistics and statistical analysis, but very few that focus specifically on the application of these techniques to pharmaceutical manufacture and control. This course does.
Analysis and Testing
This highly focused, intensive course is taught by leading scientists and former quality control (QC) managers. It is designed to provide the aspiring Qualified Person or pharmaceutical quality professional with the knowledge and understanding they need to perform their duties with skill and competence when interacting with QC laboratories.
Pharmaceutical Packaging
Why are packaging related errors still one of the greatest causes of recalls? This highly interactive four-day pharmaceutical packaging training course is designed to answer that question. It provides aspiring Qualified Persons and other pharmaceutical professionals with the knowledge and understanding they need to manage, oversee, control or audit all aspects of packaging activities.
Investigational Medicinal Products
As a QP or quality assurance professional working in this challenging area, are you aware of the current and planned changes around the manufacture of investigational medicinal products (IMPs)? This highly interactive IMP training course makes sure you are up to date.
Statistical Testing
This Statistical Testing course is only available as corporate in-house training and can be delivered in a format and time frame that works for you and your team.
Statistical Process Control
This Statistical Process Control course is only available as in-house training and can be delivered in a format and time frame that works for you and your team.

Online Self-Paced Courses

Cleaning Qualification
This course of four chapters will give you a sound basis of the regulatory requirements expected of a good pharmaceutical cleaning process, how to calculate limits and their justification.
Computerised Systems Validation
The purpose of this course is to provide an overview of current good CSV practice along with some practical advice about how to achieve good outcomes in a cost-effective and resource-efficient way.

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Qualification and Validation Training
Gain a comprehensive understanding of EU and FDA regulatory requirements associated with validation and qualification in pharmaceuticals, and learn how to apply your processes to improve overall business performance.
Regulatory Training
Stay in compliance with ever-changing pharmaceutical legislation and regulatory authority guidance.
Quality Systems Training
The quality of your products depends on the quality of your people and the effectiveness of the pharmaceutical quality system (PQS).

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Featured Courses

Advanced Equipment Qualification and Process Validation

This highly participative process validation training course is designed to ensure that you understand the current EU and FDA requirements for the design, execution, assessment and reporting of equipment qualification and process validation studies. Learn how the science- and risk-based approach to validation can deliver business efficiency, increase reliability, enable robust processes and assure product quality. Doing so can add real value to your business while providing better protection to patients.

Tutor: Andy Marshall
Price: £1560 excluding VAT (where applicable)
Please note: payment by credit/debit card will be required at time of booking.

You can view our booking terms and conditions from here.

Virtual Classroom Training
QP Practical Module

In an ever-changing pharma world, it is a challenge for QPs and prospective QPs to gain a functional understanding of the equipment and processes used to manufacture and test today’s dosage forms. This RSC approved course provides hands-on experience to trainee QPs wishing to gain better understanding of what really happens in manufacturing and testing. Share knowledge with industry and academic experts and solve real-life QP problems.

Tutors: Dave Waddington and Oona McPolin

Price: £3890 excluding VAT (where applicable)

Multiple Delegate Discounts are available for delegates from the same company attending the same course.

The first delegate must pay full price.The second delegate will receive a 20% discount.The third and any subsequent delegates will receive a 50% discount.Charities, NHS staff and Regulatory Bodies are entitled to a 50% discount. (Proof will be required).

Glasgow, United Kingdom
Active Substances and Excipients

This four and a half day active pharmaceutical ingredients (API) training course gives a unique insight into the regulatory expectations associated with producing both chemically synthesized APIs and biological/biotech APIs. The course also provides insight and expertise on managing global API supply chains, vendor quality assurance and "how to audit" API facilities. This course fulfils the requirements of the Qualified Person Study Guide and we don’t just train to pass a viva, we take the time to prepare you for your career ahead.

Tutors: Dave Waddington, Neil Wayman, Eurwyn Roberts

Price: £3780 excluding VAT (where applicable)

Course registrations will close 5 working days before the start of the course.

You can view our booking terms and conditions from here.

Multiple Delegate Discounts are available for delegates from the same company attending the same course.
The first delegate must pay full price. The second delegate will receive a 20% discount. The third and any subsequent delegates will receive a 50% discount. Charity and NHS staff are entitled to a 50% discount. (Proof will be required).

Newcastle, United Kingdom
  • I have a better understanding of the vast subject that validation is. I hope that I get backing to implement some of the guidance given.
    Samantha Mannion
    Thornton & Ross, UK
  • High expertise of trainers. Practical approach appreciated. Good benchmark of the industry and current regulators’ considerations.
    Olivier Wallez
    GSK, UK
  • The numerous practical examples from the previous experience of the tutors when they were inspectors were priceless. Another great NSF training course! I have done a number of NSF courses and have found them all to be excellent.
    Paul O'Shea
    Servier Lab (Aust) Pty Ltd, Australia

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