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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

Pharmaceutical Microbiology

A highly interactive pharmaceutical microbiology training course, designed to provide you as an aspiring Qualified Person and pharmaceutical quality professional with the knowledge and understanding you need to: assess microbiological risks in the pharmaceutical manufacturing environment, assist in the design and implementation of comprehensive microbiological control strategies, and also so take informed decisions when microbiological problems occur.

Tutors: Sam Clack, Tamryn Hassel, Ian White, Gavin Halbert (University of Strathclyde)

Price: £3160 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. Charities and NHS staff are entitled to a 50% discount. (Proof will be required).

Virtual Classroom Training
Analysis and Testing

This highly focused, intensive four-and-a-half-day course, taught by leading scientists and former Quality Control Managers, is designed to provide the aspiring Qualified Person or pharmaceutical quality professional with the knowledge and understanding they need to be able to perform their duties with skill and competence when interacting with the Quality Control laboratories.

We will explain to you the strengths and limitations of analysis and specific analytical methods, we will advise you on how to apply the principles of quality management and GMP to the testing environment in a pragmatic, effective way, and we will advise you of the very latest “hot topics” with the regulators and how to ensure that your laboratories are in compliance.

This virtual blended training course will be delivered via a combination of an instructor-led virtual classroom and self-paced learning online. This will require an element of learning to be completed prior to the virtual classroom, as well as afterwards and this will be managed through our online Learning Management System. Full details, including timings for the instructor-led virtual classrooms, will be emailed following registration.

Tutors: Dave Waddington, Oona McPolin

Price: £3555 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. Charities, NHS staff are entitled to a 50% discount. (Proof will be required).

Virtual Classroom Training
Pharmaceutical Quality Systems

In this intensive, highly interactive four-day course you will learn the essential elements of an effective, compliant, modern pharmaceutical quality system and how to implement, monitor and manage a system to meet the needs of all the major international regulatory agencies.

Learn how to simplify systems and add value to your company, not just cost!

Tutors: Samantha Clack, Vicky Baulch

Price: £3160 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. Charities, NHS staff are entitled to a 50% discount. (Proof will be required).

Virtual Classroom Training
  • 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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