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Welcome to the Quality Control Northwest Website
QCNW Mailshot
If you are here after following a link from a QCNW mailshot - please log in then
click "General" and then "News"!
Quality Control North West (QCNW)
QCNW is a NHS regional specialty service providing comprehensive and leading-
edge Pharmaceutical Quality Assurance Services to NHS Trusts, Foundation
Trusts, and Mental Health Trusts in the North West of England. As part of the
overall healthcare team, our aims are to work with others to assure the quality
of medicines, and to contribute to the minimisation of risks to NHS patients of
receiving defective medicines. We achieve these aims by the application of
appropriate systems of quality assurance, audit, and quality control to the
purchasing, manufacturing/preparation, and management of medicinal products
in hospitals. Please click the "Our Services" button above to find out more about
the services we provide. We welcome feedback on any aspect of the website
(please click the "feedback" button above).
Registration
Please register by clicking on the "Register" button above and completing your details. Once registered, you will have access to more pharmaceutical quality assurance data, advice, guidance, and information. If you have any difficulty registering, or forget your password, please contact us using the "Feedback" button above.
Cytotoxic Residue Monitoring
Quality Control North West provide a cytotoxic residue monitoring service to pharmacy aseptic units and laboratories inside and outside the NHS handling cytotoxic drugs. We supply self-contained kits with all materials necessary for sampling surfaces for traces of cytotoxic residues and for sending back to our laboratories where state of the art LC/MS techniques are used to identify and quantify residues found. Please do not hesitate to contact us for further information (see "contact" button above).
NHS Pharmaceutical Quality Assurance Website
The QCNW website is linked to the national NHS Pharmaceutical Quality Assurance site, part of the National Electronic Library for Medicines. All national quality assurance information can be accessed by clicking here.
Non-NHS Users
We provide analytical and consultancy services to a wide range of clients both inside and outside the NHS. If you are a pharmaceutical company interested in contracting out as part of your product development or quality control plans, click the "Consultancy" button above to find out more about how QCNW can help you to achieve your objectives.
Quality Assurance and Risk Assessment of Licensed medicines for the NHS
Product samples for NHS Supply Chain Excellence programme for Pharmaceuticals
(SCEP) contracts are assessed according to the approach documented in Quality
Assurance and Risk Assessment of Licensed Medicines for the NHS. A copy of this
document is available as a download on the "purchasing" page of the Medicines
Management section of the members area. To access this area you will need to
register by clicking the "Register" button above.
Medical Gas Testing Register
The register of Quality Controllers (Medical Gas Pipeline Systems) can be found by
logging-in to the members area and going to the "Research and Scientific Services"
section, then clicking on the "Scientific Services" page (authorised users only).
Click here for the national Medical Gases Registration Policy and procedure.
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