Pharmaceutical Technology &
Quality Assurance (PTQA)
Pharmaceutical Medical Gas Testing – Five day course
Monday 9 – Friday 13 February 2015
Day One – Monday 9 February 2015
Time
10:00 – 10.15
Session
Registration and coffee
Speakers
10:15 – 11.00
Theresa Hughes
Course Director
11.00 -12.00
Course and module introduction
Objectives
Med gas policy & committee
1
Introduction to medical gases and their uses
12.00 – 12.30
2
12:30-12.45
12.45-13.30
Refreshment break
3
MGPS plant overview – Key features
13.30 – 14.15
Lunch
4&5
14.15 – 15.00
15:00 - 15:15
15.15 – 15.45
15.45 - 17:15
Walk-through of key MGPS features on site
Manufacture of medical gases & The role of the QP
including design/function of a VIE Plant
Refreshment break
6
Introduction to HTM 02-01 (2006)
- Key Features and its application in practice
7
On-site practical
3 parallel groups in rotation 3 x 30 minute sessions
7a
QC MGPS issues relating to a VIE installation
7b
QC MGPS issues relating to compressed air supplies
(Compressors)
7c
QC MGPS issues relating to manifolds
17:15
Notices
17:30
End of day one
Tim Sizer
Regional QA NHS Bristol
Andy Capper
Authorised Engineer, MGPS Services Ltd
Andy Capper
MGPS Services Ltd
Peter Henrys
BOC Gases
Andy Capper
MGPS Services Ltd
Introduction by Theresa Hughes
Course Director
Andy Capper
MGPS Services Ltd
Ian Buckingham
QC (MGPS) Quality Control North East
Ed Doyle
Altec (Analytical & Technical) Services Ltd
Theresa Hughes
Course Director
Day Two – Tuesday 10 February 2015
Time
09.00 – 09.45
Session
8
Gas safety in relation to MGPS
09:45 - 10:30
9
10:30 – 10:45
10:45- 11:30
11.30 – 12.30
Aspects of MGPS engineering (Part 1):
Central sources of supply and emergency reserve supplies
Refreshment Break
10
Aspects of MGPS engineering (Part 2):
Distribution and monitoring Systems
11
On-site practical
2 parallel groups in rotation 2 x 30 minute sessions
11a
Demonstration of AP tests
11b
Demonstration of pipe jointing
Speakers
Theresa Hughes
Course Director
Andy Capper, Midland Medical staff
Andy Capper, Midland Medical staff
Midland Medical staff
Midland Medical staff
Day Two – Tuesday 10 February 2015 continued….
12.30 – 13.15
12
13.15 – 14.00
Lunch
14.00 – 14.30
13
14:30 - 16:30
Engineering tests – relevance for QC (MGPS)
Note: Qs to ask the AP, UP pathway
Introduction to role of QC MGPS
In relation to HTM 0201
14
Workshop sessions
3 parallel groups in rotation 3 x 40 minute sessions
Refreshment break to be taken at a convenient point
14a
Terminal units function, identity and operational problems
14b
AVSUs, LVA’s and Alarms operation and faults
14c
Cylinder Management identification, storage, tracking, and
connections
16:30 - 17:15
15
Moisture in medical gas systems
17.15
17.15 – 17.45
17.45
End of day two (industrial delegates)
Manchester University session
End of day two
Course dinner at the Village Hotel (optional)
19.30
Paul Jones
QC (MGPS) & Consultant (Medical Gases)
Theresa Hughes
Course Director
Andrew Sully
Cardiff and Vale NHS Trust
Ed Doyle
Altec (Analytical & Technical) Services Ltd
Paul Jones
QC (MGPS) & Consultant (Medical Gases)
Keith Butler
Alpha Moisture Systems
Day Three – Wednesday 11 February 2015
Time
09:00 - 09:45
Session
16
Introduction to ‘permit to work’ system
09:45 - 10:45
17
10:45 - 11:15
11:15 - 12:00
12:00 - 13:00
13:00 – 17:30
17:30 - 17:45
17.45
Workshop ‘permit to work’ system
Role-play workshop
Refreshment Break
18
Introduction to pharmaceutical testing of gases
How things are tested
How instrumentation does its job
Lunch
19
Workshop Sessions
5 parallel groups in rotation each workshop taking 30mins
19a
OXYGEN identity and purity methods
Speakers
Mark Milne
BOC Healthcare
Mark Milne
BOC Healthcare
Ian Buckingham
QC (MGPS) Quality Control North East
Andrew Sully
Cardiff and Vale NHS Trust
19b
Ed Doyle
NITROUS OXIDE / ENTONOX identity and purity methods
Altec (Analytical & Technical) Services Ltd
19c
Ian Buckingham
MEDICAL, SURGICAL and DENTAL AIR identity and purity
methods
QC (MGPS) Quality Control North East
19d
Paul Jones
HELIOX and Surgical Carbon Dioxide identity and purity
methods
QC (MGPS) & Consultant (Medical Gases)
19e
Adrian Fairbrother QC(MGPS)
CONTAMINANTS moisture, particulates, and oil
Refreshment Breaks to be taken at suitable times during workshop sessions
Theresa Hughes
Notices
Course Director
End of day three
2
Day Four – Thursday 12 February 2015
Time
09.00 – 09.30
Session
20
Calibration Gases
When used etc
Speakers
Ian Buckingham
QC (MGPS) Quality Control North East
09.30 – 10.00
21
Adrian Fairbrother QC(MGPS)
10.00 – 10.30
10.30 – 10.45
10.45 – 11.15
11.15 – 12.00
22
The Basic Tool Kit
Refreshment Break
23
Common problems that occur with equipment
24
Measurements of particulates (Practical)
12.00 – 13.00
13:00 – 17.00
Lunch
25
-
17.00
Calibration of Instruments
Problem solving workshop
Workbook
45 minute to do test and write report
Lecturers to oversee but stay back
Theresa Hughes Course Director
Richard Sutherland, Omicron Projects
Paul Jones
Tim Sizer, Paul Jones, Theresa Hughes
Refreshment break to be taken at convenient time during the practical sessions
End of day four
Day Five – Friday 13 February 2015
Time
09.00 – 09.45
Session
26
Oxygen conservation
09.45 – 10.30
27
10.30 – 10.45
10.45 – 11.45
12.30 – 13.00
Refreshment break
28
Incident pit – ‘what can go wrong with medical gases’
Recent hazards, incidents and developments
29
Medical Gases - A Prescriber's View and Future
Trends
Closing summary
13.00 – 13.45
Lunch, close of course & issue of certificates
11.45 – 12.30
Dealing with pressure – new MG testers
Speakers
Steve Connew
Colchester Hospital University NHS
Foundation Trust
Alistair Ellis-Jones,
North East Wales NHS Trust
Paul Jones
QC (MGPS) & Consultant (Medical Gases)
Dr Matthew Jones, Royal London Hospital
Theresa Hughes
Course Director
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