Development, issue, implementation and monitoring of standards and guidance

Development, issue, implementation and monitoring of standards and guidance

QA staff are actively involved locally and nationally in the development of pharmaceutical technical standards and guidance for application to pharmacy services. The NHS Pharmaceutical Quality Assurance Committee has pro-duced guidance documents covering a wide span of topics.

Implementation and monitoring of national and local standards and guidance are carried out on an ongoing basis through QC, environmental monitoring and audit programmes in hospital pharmacy manufacturing units and in both licensed and unlicensed aseptic dispensing units.