Presented by
Management Forum
This course is designed to help understand pharmacovigilance quality management systems (QMS) and risk-based audits.
★★★★★ "Excellent, his experience and extensive knowledge are evident. It's been a pleasure to learn from hi... more (13)"
20-21 January 2025
+ 19-20 May 2025, 25-26 September 2025 »
from £1299
Since the introduction of the new pharmacovigilance legislation in the EU, QMS and self-audits have become an increasingly important topic. Companies have been challenged by regulators to implement risk-based audits where continual improvement of processes, systems and compliance to regulations needs to be demonstrated. This is required from the top of the company organisation in all areas of regulatory activity including clinical, pharmacovigilance, sales and marketing, IT and medical services.
This must-attend course will explain principles, approaches and regulatory expectations for the pharmacovigilance QMS and risk-based audits and has been designed to help in both the assessments of risk and the whole CAPA process. The highly participative programme will include a mix of presentations from our expert trainer, reallife case studies and practical workshop sessions which will help consolidate learning.
This course is part of our Vigilance training course collection; for information on the basics of PhV, consider taking a look at our beginner-friendly Pharmacovigilance training course.
QA representatives, EU QPPVs and all working in pharmacovigilance, regulatory, clinical and administrators responsible for the management of the CAPA systems will benefit from this course.
You will be asked to design the QMS for a safety department that has recently been audited. You will need to devise a plan based on any risk elements and audit findings identified and look at designing a QMS approach with KPIs.
You will be presented with a series of findings from a regulatory inspection. You will have to look at the findings and work out priorities, devise root cause analyses and provide detailed CAPA plans which will include QMS activities.
Graeme Ladds, Director of PharSafer, has over 30 years’ experience working in the pharmaceutical industry. Having started his career at Ashbourne Pharmaceuticals in 1989 as Head of Drug Safety & Medical Information, he went on to become Head of Global Pharmacovigilance at Shire Pharmaceuticals. He then set up his consultancy and specialist CRO company, PharSafer Associates Ltd, where he has been involved in establishing pharmacovigilance in companies, performing audits across Europe and the USA, SOP writing, acting as QP for companies, and helping with regulatory inspections.
NEW higher discounts for multiple bookings - bring your colleagues to make your training budget go further:
Please contact us for pricing if you are interested in booking 5 or more delegates
20-21 January 2025
Live online
09:00-16:15 UK (London) (UTC+00)
10:00-17:15 Paris (UTC+01)
04:00-11:15 New York (UTC-05)
Course code 15253
Until 16 Dec
Not ready to book yet?
for 7 days, no obligation
19-20 May 2025
Live online
09:00-16:15 UK (London) (UTC+01)
10:00-17:15 Paris (UTC+02)
04:00-11:15 New York (UTC-04)
Course code 14696
Until 14 Apr
Not ready to book yet?
for 7 days, no obligation
25-26 September 2025
Live online
09:00-16:15 UK (London) (UTC+01)
10:00-17:15 Paris (UTC+02)
04:00-11:15 New York (UTC-04)
Course code 14950
Until 21 Aug
Not ready to book yet?
for 7 days, no obligation
* Early booking discounts may not be combined with other discounts or offers. As such, the discounts for 2nd/3rd/4th delegates are based on the full price; and apply only when booking multiple delegates on the same date.
Excellent, his experience and extensive knowledge are evident. It's been a pleasure to learn from him. I really liked the presentation and the speaker. Clear ideas, all the topics covered, and practical exercises to put the theory into practice.
Sep 28 2023
Eva Sanz Castel
GSM QA AUDITOR, Lab Esteve
Jan 23 2023
[The presenter] has huge knowledge and gave real-life examples... the best thing was the practical exercise it will be a great guide to us.
Hind T. Almanea
QPPV, PharmaKnowl
Jan 23 2023
Graeme is very skilled professional, who was able to transfer example from real life experience and deliverables in a straightforward and effective way.
Mario Caiano
Pharmacovigilance Auditor, Pharmanovia
Nov 16 2022
Speaker was wonderful
Nov 19 2020
The speaker was excellent and gave very practical examples of what is looked for in an Audit
Kathleen Dunphy
Senior Administrator , NorthStar Healthcare
Nov 11 2019
I wanted to reinforce my knowledge and I definitely accomplished this. Graeme Ladds was great as usual. His pharmacovigilance knowledge is extensive, any question was answered confidently and debate was encouraged.
Christopher Harper
Senior Medical Information Manager, Astellas Pharmaceuticals
Nov 11 2019
The course actually exceeded my expectations and gave me an inside view of flaws in my PhV system. Great speaker with a lot of knowledge, good pace and experiences/stories from real life.
Hrvoje Sarec
Pharmacovigilance Specialist, Xellia d.o.o.
Nov 11 2019
Excellent presentation by a very experienced speaker. The examples provided and the exercises were greatly appreciated.
Anne-Elisabeth Collignon
Pharmacovigilance Head of PV Quality Assurance, Institut de Recherches Internationales Servier
Nov 11 2019
The speaker was very knowledgeable and easy to approach and I would definitely attend another course that had him as trainer. The practical examples were very useful and the course was interesting, well organised, and had a good balance in terms of content and difficulty.
Claudia Percivalle
Head of Global Regulatory Affairs, Cycle Pharmaceuticals Ltd.
Nov 11 2019
The speaker was very very good and I particularly liked the opportunity to exchange experiences and examples.
Evangelia Tsakiraki
EU QPPV, Piramal Critical Care B.V.
Nov 22 2018
Very interactive and interesting the speaker has a great knowledge of the subject and respond to all our queries.
Tracy Salamoun
Regulatory affairs Associate , Union pharmaceutique d’orient sal
Nov 22 2018
A very well knowledgeable presenter in QA and particularly in PV. The content was rich and touched all areas in great detail. The course is very well balanced and anyone (junior to experienced) in QA could understand and learn from the training.
Netsanet Desta-Evers
Clinical Safety Compliance Specialist, Novimmune SA
Nov 22 2018
[The speaker] was good :) Overall, it was a good class!
Jiwan Park
QA Associate, Celltrion
United Kingdom
Spain
Germany
Netherlands
Croatia
Denmark
Ireland
France
Italy
Saudi Arabia
Switzerland
Austria
Belgium
Czech Republic
India
Israel
Korea, Republic Of
Lebanon
Malta
Slovak Republic
Slovenia
Sweden
United States of America
2 days
Typical duration
Pricing from:
We can customise this course to your requirements and deliver it on an in-house basis for any number of your staff or colleagues.
Contact our in-house training experts Aleksandra Beer and Yesim Nurko to discuss your requirements:
Multiple colleagues? See above for details of our discounts for 2, 3, or 4 delegates. For more, talk to one of our training experts to discuss how to: