Health and Pharmaceutical Administration

Managing the Cold Chain for Sensitive Pharmaceutical Preparations

Turn pharmaceutical cold chain from a stated policy into a practice your organisation can evidence.

  • 5training days
  • 4modules
  • 8sessions
  • 32topics
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Managing the Cold Chain for Sensitive Pharmaceutical Preparations
5days

About the programme

Course Overview

Variation in pharmaceutical cold chain between shifts and sites is where avoidable harm lives. The data supporting the wider health and pharmaceutical services agenda is usually present but rarely assembled into a decision. Where the health and pharmaceutical services capability is measured, it improves; where it is only discussed, it drifts. It suits anyone whose decisions touch pharmaceutical cold chain, in large organisations and small ones alike. Participants develop a defensible line of reasoning for the choices they make about this strand of health and pharmaceutical services. Work is grounded in real cases drawn from the wider health and pharmaceutical services agenda, which each participant adapts to conditions in their own organisation. It establishes a shared vocabulary for pharmaceutical cold chain so that teams can disagree productively about it. Moving the practice within health and pharmaceutical services from written policy into daily practice is not achieved by a single decision. It closes by agreeing the smallest change to the health and pharmaceutical services discipline that would make a visible difference.

Expected Learning Outcomes

  • Apply root cause analysis to adverse events involving pharmaceutical cold chain.

  • Apply regulatory and licensing requirements governing pharmaceutical cold chain.

  • Plan the handover of pharmaceutical cold chain so that capability is not lost when key staff move on.

  • Agree the first three actions on pharmaceutical cold chain that will be taken on returning to work.

  • Prepare the documented evidence accreditation assessors expect on pharmaceutical cold chain.

  • Build continuing professional development sustaining competence in pharmaceutical cold chain.

  • Structure records of pharmaceutical cold chain so that they answer the questions an auditor will actually ask.

Who Should Attend

  • Hospital and health facility managers accountable for pharmaceutical cold chain.

  • Anyone whose accountability for pharmaceutical cold chain exceeds their current formal training in it.

  • Regulatory affairs specialists handling pharmaceutical cold chain.

  • Pharmacists and pharmacy managers involved in pharmaceutical cold chain.

  • Specialists advising senior management on pharmaceutical cold chain.

  • Quality and patient safety officers monitoring pharmaceutical cold chain.

Course Modules

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01

Pharmaceutical cold chain: quality indicators and patient outcome

2 sessions · 8 points

Session 1Auditing pharmaceutical cold chain at the bedside, not in the binder

  • Build the internal briefing that explains pharmaceutical cold chain to those affected.
  • Check that consent processes within pharmaceutical cold chain are genuinely informed.
  • Test the procedure for pharmaceutical cold chain against a realistic scenario.
  • Identify infection transmission risks created by pharmaceutical cold chain and control them.

Session 2Infection risk created by pharmaceutical cold chain

  • Define escalation criteria for deterioration detected through pharmaceutical cold chain.
  • Review whether pharmaceutical cold chain is aligned with the objectives of the clinical service.
  • Close the loop: confirm changes to pharmaceutical cold chain improved the indicator they targeted.
  • Arrange the handover of pharmaceutical cold chain so capability survives staff changes.
02

Pharmaceutical cold chain: regulation, licensing and accreditation evidence

2 sessions · 8 points

Session 1Making incident reporting on pharmaceutical cold chain safe for staff

  • Reduce unwarranted variation in pharmaceutical cold chain between shifts and sites.
  • Confirm competence and continuing development for staff delivering pharmaceutical cold chain.
  • Confirm licensing and regulatory requirements applying to pharmaceutical cold chain are met.
  • Establish the boundary of pharmaceutical cold chain and record what sits outside it.

Session 2Escalation and decision rights in pharmaceutical cold chain

  • Write down the assumptions underpinning the approach to pharmaceutical cold chain.
  • Collect evidence on the present handling of pharmaceutical cold chain before proposing changes.
  • Set the review interval for pharmaceutical cold chain and who attends.
  • Define the trigger that would require pharmaceutical cold chain to be redesigned.
03

Pharmaceutical cold chain: incident reporting, investigation and learning

2 sessions · 8 points

Session 1Medication safety checkpoints inside pharmaceutical cold chain

  • Anticipate the objections pharmaceutical cold chain will raise and prepare the answers.
  • Apply structured root cause analysis to the last adverse event involving pharmaceutical cold chain.
  • Decide what will be stopped to create capacity for pharmaceutical cold chain.
  • Prepare the response for the most likely failure in pharmaceutical cold chain.

Session 2Matching staffing on pharmaceutical cold chain to real demand

  • Audit pharmaceutical cold chain by observing practice, not by reading policy.
  • Assemble the accreditation evidence pack for pharmaceutical cold chain.
  • Match staffing levels on pharmaceutical cold chain to measured demand across the week.
  • Identify the data already collected that bears on pharmaceutical cold chain.
04

Pharmaceutical cold chain: clinical process design and workflow

2 sessions · 8 points

Session 1The paperwork for pharmaceutical cold chain that is actually needed

  • Agree the smallest change to pharmaceutical cold chain that would be visibly useful.
  • Map the clinical workflow for pharmaceutical cold chain as it is actually performed.
  • Build medication safety checks into pharmaceutical cold chain at the point of highest risk.
  • Select quality indicators for pharmaceutical cold chain that measure outcome rather than activity.

Session 2Reviewing pharmaceutical cold chain when nothing has gone wrong

  • Remove steps in pharmaceutical cold chain that add effort without adding assurance.
  • Cost pharmaceutical cold chain per episode and identify avoidable waste.
  • Plan continuity of pharmaceutical cold chain during surge and outbreak conditions.
  • Estimate the resource pharmaceutical cold chain requires to run as designed.

Choose the package that suits you

Silver Package

At least 3 people

USD1,250
  • Workshop or Program Participation
  • Airport Transfers
  • Customized Badge
  • Expert Mentorship (Private Sessions)
  • Supervision & Secretarial Services
  • Accredited Certificate of Participation
  • Complete Training Kit
  • Coffee Break
  • Closing Ceremony

Gold Package

At least 3 people

USD1,850
  • 5-night stay in a 5-star hotel
  • Workshop or Program Participation
  • Airport Transfers
  • Customized Badge
  • Expert Mentorship (Private Sessions)
  • Supervision & Secretarial Services
  • Accredited Certificate of Participation
  • Complete Training Kit
  • Coffee Break
  • Closing Ceremony

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