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About QCNW Liverpool

Quality Control North West - Liverpool is an NHS organisation providing a comprehensive range of quality control, research and scientific services to the NHS, other public bodies, private healthcare customers and the pharmaceutical industry. 

The laboratory is based within the Pharmacy Practice Unit at Liverpool and is hosted by Liverpool University Hospitals Foundation Trust. Services include environmental and piped medical gas monitoring, microbiological testing and stability determination of aseptically prepared medicines, including stability studies on compounded mAb preparations.

Quality Control North West - Liverpool laboratory is approved by the MHRA (Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency) as a provider of quality control laboratory services and is accredited under the UKAS scheme (United Kingdom Accreditation Service) to the ISO/IEC 17025;2017 standard.

Quality Control North West - Liverpool works closely with North West Regional QA Service / Specialist Pharmacy Services and with pharmacy professionals in NW aseptic and production units.

 

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Latest News
  • New UKAS Schedule of Accreditation issued

    We have received a new ISO17025 Schedule of Accreditation from UKAS (issue no. 013). To view/download it, see 'Accreditation' from the top men...

    25/10/2024 by: Quality Control North West Liverpool
  • Trastuzumab (Kanjinti) Study Published

    The Kanjinti stability study has recently been published in the Generics and Biosimilars Initiative Journal (GaBI Journal) and can be found here: h...

    10/02/2022 by: Quality Control North West Liverpool
  • Pemetrexed Stability Study Update

    The Pemetrexed study has now been reported in the European Journal of Hospital Pharmacy and can be found here.

    26/07/2021 by: Quality Control North West Liverpool
  • Panitumumab Stability Study

    QCNW-Liverpool has recently completed a stability study on Panitumumab preparations, which was undertaken at the request of Clatterbridge Cancer Centr...

    26/07/2021 by: Quality Control North West Liverpool
  • Vancomycin Eye Drop Formulation

    QCNW-Liverpool has worked on the formulation of a Vancomycin Eye Drop preparation to establish a preparation with both good preservative efficacy...

    14/09/2020 by: Quality Control North West Liverpool
  • Pemetrexed Stability

    QCNW-Liverpool have recently completed a stability study on Pemetrexed preparations for NHS England. The report generated has been reviewed within the...

    24/08/2020 by: Quality Control North West Liverpool
  • Dr Lyndsay Davies member of the NHS Pharmaceutical Research and Development Working Group

    Dr Lyndsay Davies has been a member of the NHS Pharmaceutical Research and Development Working Group since 2018. Lyndsay brings significant expertise ...

    11/03/2020 by: Quality Control North West Liverpool
  • QCNW-Liverpool has successfully transitioned to the updated ISO 17025:2017

    Following a recent inspection QCNW-Liverpool has successfully transitioned to the updated ISO 17025:2017 standard for accreditation as a testing labor...

    11/03/2020 by: Quality Control North West Liverpool
  • Luke Nelson presented a poster on ‘Supply of OPAT Presentations’

    In November 2019 Luke Nelson presented a poster on ‘Supply of OPAT Presentations’ at the ‘NHS Pharmaceutical Quality Assurance and T...

    11/03/2020 by: Quality Control North West Liverpool
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