Cogent Gold Standard Training – Who is it for?

by | Mar 25, 2022 | Blog, Cogent Gold Standard, Training

As Pharmacy Consulting is now once again able to offer our popular ‘Face to Face’ Cogent Gold Standard Responsible Person Training Course’. Now is a good time to revisit who the course is for and how it can benefit participants.

The pharmaceutical industry is a highly regulated sector, Minimising risk to patient safety is of paramount importance and in recent years, has led to significant changes.

Those looking to be RPs (Responsible Persons) or even directors of companies now need more in-depth training. Our course participants arrive from all sorts of working environments and with differing levels of experience. If you are involved in any way with the pharmacy industry, then this is the course for you.

Our previous course participants have included:

  • Logistics providers
  • Medicine Procurement professionals
  • Commercial Teams
  • Auditors
  • Budding Responsible Persons who wish to be named on a Wholesale Dealers Licence (WDA).
  • Responsible People who wish to carry out more CPD.
  • Quality Assurance Personnel
  • Wholesale Dealers Authorisation holders.

The success of your business and compliance with GDP is in the hands of your RP. Our three-day Cogent “Gold standard” Responsible Person (RP) Training, is formally recognized by the MHRA and fulfils the training requirements of the Good Distribution Practice (GDP) guidelines.

Our trainers have a wealth of experience and have been both ‘in-house’ and ‘Contract’ RPs. We provide a personal and bespoke service to fit your business needs and our RPs can come to your work location if required, this is in addition to the scheduled online and ‘face to face’ course dates we have on the website.

The Course includes:

  • Introduction
  • Quality management
  • Personnel
  • Premises & equipment
  • Documentation
  • Operations
  • Complaints, returns, suspected falsified medicinal products & medicinal product recalls
  • Outsourced activities
  • Self-inspections
  • Transportation
  • Brokers
  • Licensing, authorizations & how the industry is regulated
  • Due Diligence of suppliers & customers
  • Medicine classifications
  • The role of the professional bodies that regulate those supplying medicinal products
  • Assessment

Join us – To date we have a 100% pass rate.

If you would like to find out more about our Courses visit our Training Pages or book via our Online Booking Form or if you would like to talk with one of our team call us on 01252 375362.

Testimonials

This session has been very informative and an eye opener. Jackie was excellent in her delivery.
Mustafa Bhaiji from Manton Pharmacy