Tutela UK educational study day
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Tutela Educational Study Day - Chairman
Malcom Robinson Worthing & Southlands Hospitals:
Blood Transfusion Manager Malcolm trained as a laboratory scientist in 1976 with the Royal Navy. He became the Navy's yougest CPO whilst managing the Blood
Transfusion laboratory in the Naval Hospital in Plymouth. On leaving
the services he jumped "out of the frying pan and into the fire" working
in Saudi Arabia around the first Gulf War. After 3 years Malcolm left to
work at UAE because they had a grass Rugby pitch! and after breaking his neck he came back to work in the UK as Laboratory and Regional
Manager for the Nuffield Hospital in Birmingham. He then became Operations Director of a Private Pathology Company and during this time
opened and operated laboratories in the UK, Holland and the Middle East
prior to becoming Blood Transfusion Manager at Worthing in 2006. Malcolm is the Chair of the South Thames Transfusion TA(D)G and has experienced 2 MHRA inspections to date.
MHRA Inspections - Cold chain medicines & blood
Ian Holloway - MHRA Manager of the UK
Defective Medicines Report Centre
Ian worked for the MHRA inspecting manufacturers and wholesalers
both in the UK and overseas as a GMP inspector. This was followed by working as Phramacovigilance inspector looking at drug safety
systems. He now manages the Defect Centre which advises companies on defective products and manages product recall actions. He is a registered pharmacist with an Msc in Pharmacological Biochemistry.
Preparing for inspection
Betty Wickens - NHSBT Quality Systems Audit Manager
Betty has more than 20 years experience in the area of blood
transfusion. After state registration as a biomedical scientist Betty
was in charge of the Testing Department at Southampton Transfusion
Centre, before moving to Quality Assurance. She became Quality Assurance Manager at NHBST in 2004 and led the centre through 5 MHRA inspections. Betty is now the Quality Systems Audit Manager for NHBST, this role involves managing the self inspection and supplier audit programmes, including maintaining a pool of experienced auditors and ensuring maximum value is gained from the self inspection programme. Another Audit Manager role is assisting Hospital Blood Banks with their BSQR compliance via mock inspections and workshops.
Thermal Mapping the process & Record Management
Michelle Evans - Welsh Blood Service
Michelle has worked for the Welsh Blood Service for 23 years. She
started as a Junior 'B' Medical Laboratory Scientific Officer (MLSO)
and has been working in the QA laboratory since 2002 when she
joined as Section Leader. In 2007 Michelle was appointed as the Head of the Laboratory. The QA Lab is the calibration authority for the WBS and undertakes the validation of all storage systems. In addition to this the Lab also performs the quality monitoring of the processing function and bacterial monitoring of platelet components.
Wayne Goddard - Laboratory Manager Quality Control West Midlands
I am Laboratory Manager for Quality Control West Midlands which is the Regional Pharmaceutical Quality assurance service for the West Midlands Strategic Heealth Authority. QCWM provides QA advice to 44 NHS Trusts across 6 counties. I have been with the service since 1992 and have been Lab manager since 2005. I am a serving expert with the British Phamacopoeia Commission (Unlicensed Medicines), I represent QA issues on local, regional and national pharmaceutical procurement groups. I have also served on the National NHS Pharmaceutical QA Committee, the MHRA Liason Group and I am visiting lecturer to the University of Leeds.
Candidate Comments "Thank you for a very informative and useful day, I now have a lot more work
to try and fit in to make the changes needed! Thanks again."
Daniel Green
Pharmacy QA
Stoke Mandeville Hospital
"The day long event was excellent and this was reflected in the number of
very attentive delegates present and the number of varied questions
asked by
the delegates to the different speakers."
Malcolm Robinson
Chair of the event
"Lots was covered and will prompt me into action. There are plenty of issues
raised that I will have to address at work. The MHRA requirements bit of the study
day was absolutely useful! Fantastic and Fruitful Educational Study day.
Thank you and Well Done!"
Anonymous
"Very informative study day , well organised at easy to find venue. Great opportunity to
discuss issues with speakers and other colleagues".
Jane Murphy
RBH Reading
"Ideal Day! Just the right amount of information and at the correct level."
