Practical GDP/RP auditing skills

2 Day/s

CPD Hours: 14

Classroom, In-house

Our new 2-day Practical GDP/RP Auditor Skills training course has been written from the ground up to specifically meet the audit responsibilities for busy GDP professionals and Responsible Persons.


GDP professionals who attend our Responsible Person and GDP courses, regularly feedback to RSSL that they have an obligation to conduct audits in the GDP Quality System; however, they lack the know-how and experience to implement an effective audit programme, or indeed, know where to start in planning and conducting an audit. In addition, MHRA in the pre-amble to GDP Green Guide, state that auditor training is a recommended intervention for GDP professionals.


In particular, this course has been specifically designed for GDP professionals, with tailored case studies and mock-audit exercises to help you apply pragmatic auditing techniques in a GDP environment. This course is specifically designed to provide you with the essential skills to plan and conduct audits with improved ability and confidence, ensuring you know how to set an effective audit programme and conduct internal and supplier audits that will satisfy regulatory authority expectations.


RSSL prides itself on providing a safe and nurturing learning environment for all delegates; we are also specially trained to provide an effective learning environment for neurodivergent people.


Are you a GDP Responsible Person or GDP professional and are required to conduct audits of your internal GDP Quality System or supply chain? The course is suitable for you and:


  • GDP Professionals who have responsibility for the audit programme
  • Responsible Persons who need to set audit programmes and either commission or conduct GDP audits
  • GDP auditors
  • Other GDP professionals involved in the GDP audit cycle


This course is specifically designed to provide you with the essential skills to plan and conduct audits with improved ability and confidence, ensuring you know how to set an effective audit programme and conduct internal and supplier audits that will satisfy regulatory authority expectations.

The course covers the following topics:


Day 1
  • Types of audits
  • GDP Auditing standards and guidelines
  • Setting up and managing a risk-based annual audit programme
  • The audit cycle (planning, initiating, conducting audits)
  • Preparing and planning for your audit


Day 2
  • Checklists
  • Auditing techniques and auditor competencies
  • The audit process (opening meetings, the audit, closing meetings)
  • Writing clear non-conformances
  • Audit role play
  • Writing concise audit reports and follow-up


All sessions have practical learning exercises to help the delegates apply the techniques.

    Our course will enable you to:


    • Apply the core regulations and standards you are obliged to audit against.
    • Set an effective risk-based annual audit programme to cover the core GDP system to meet statutory obligations.
    • Plan and conduct individual audits with clear audit criteria and audit agendas.
    • Be able to write clear non-conformances that help the auditee to meet your requirements.
    • Be able to write effective, concise audit reports and follow up actions.
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Meet the tutors

David Abraham

With extensive knowledge of business operations and processes, manufacturing operations, logistics, printed packaging and pharmaceutical industry applications, David Abraham has worked in and alongside working parties at national and international level, developing guidance and standards for the industry. He has been instrumental in the development of the PS 9000 publications.

Neil Wayman

Neil is a Microbiologist with over 30 years experience in the pharmaceutical industry. Neil Treasurer of the Pharmaceutical Quality Group and actively involved in running the annual MHRA/PQG meeting. In 2012 he moved back to a role as QA Group manager, QP and RP on the license at AstraZeneca’s second largest manufacturing site at Macclesfield in Cheshire with primary responsible for the site QMS, internal and external inspections, licensing, issue management and recall. In 2018 he moved to AstraZeneca Corporate Quality as Global Quality Director primarily responsible as Global Business Process Owner for Complaints.

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