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Good Distribution Practice Essentials

A medicine can leave the factory in perfect condition and still reach the patient warm, damaged, diverted or swapped for a fake. Everything that stops that happening takes place in the warehouses, vans and offices in between.

A short, complete course on good distribution practice as the EU GDP Guidelines expect it to work: who answers for the supply chain, buying only from lawful sources and receiving goods with care, storing them in the conditions on the label, selling only to entitled customers and moving stock safely, and handling returns, suspect packs and recalls so that the next patient is protected.

Duration: 2 to 3 hours, self-paced
Level: Foundation
Lessons: 5 lessons

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This course is in development

Good Distribution Practice Essentials is not open for enrolment yet. Join the waitlist and we will email you when it opens. Waitlist members receive the launch price, an early look at the curriculum and a chance to tell us which situations from their own site the course should cover.

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What the course teaches and assesses

Know who answers for what: Say which activities count as wholesale distribution, what the quality system has to deliver, and which decisions stay with the responsible person however the work is shared out.
Buy and receive safely: Check that a supplier may lawfully sell to you, weigh the warning signs in an offer, and stop wrong, damaged or suspect packs at goods-in.
Store to the label: Keep stock segregated by status, show through mapping, monitoring and alarms that storage conditions were met, and rotate stock by expiry.
Sell and move with control: Supply only entitled customers, write records that let any pack be traced, and keep products within their labelled conditions in your own vans and with a courier.
Put it right: Handle complaints and returns on evidence, report suspected falsified packs at once, test the recall system, and use self-inspection to find gaps first.

Lessons

1The chain and who answers for it
2Buying and receiving
3Storing
4Selling and moving
5When things come back or go wrong
Scored final exam and dated certificate

What this course does and does not do

Covered

Know who answers for what
Store to the label
Put it right

Not covered

Responsible Person qualification or appointment
Your wholesale distribution authorisation application
Your own site's SOPs, mapping studies or transport validation

This course is professional training. It does not replace your site’s procedures, and it is not regulatory or legal advice on a specific event.

Who it is for

Warehouse, logistics and transport staff
Customer service and quality staff at distributors
Newly appointed responsible persons

For managers

Rolling good distribution practice essentials out to a team?

The Site Readiness Programme adds a team heatmap from the self-assessment, a live session on the weakest questions, and records named by employee ID. Quote within two working days.

Seats for the whole team, priced per learner from 5 learners
Anonymised team heatmap: which questions your people fail, by chapter
90-minute live session built on the team's weakest questions

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Regulations referenced

EU GDP Guidelines (2013/C 343/01), Introduction, Chapters 1 to 10 and Glossary
ICH Q9(R1), 3

Expected price at launch

€179

excl. VAT. Waitlist members hear first.

Good Distribution Practice Essentials, 5 lessons, knowledge checks, 12 months access · €179
Worked examples and knowledge checksEvery lesson runs on a real situation, with checks that ask you to make the call rather than recall a definition.
Template packThe report, assessment and investigation templates from the free resources, annotated with what a reviewer looks for in each field.
Before-and-after readiness scoreRetake the self-assessment after the course. Keep both scores as evidence of the gap you closed.
12 months of access, with author Q&AIncluding any updates made during that period. Ask the course author about your own deviations, changes and records.
Dated certificateNames the learner, the course and the exam result, with a unique ID any employer or auditor can check. Supports the training records EudraLex Volume 4 Chapter 2 expects you to keep.

Still under 75% on the retake? Tell us.

Finish the course and retake the chapter assessment. If you still score under 75%, email us with the questions you missed. We will point you at the material that covers them, and if it is quicker to talk it through, we will arrange a call.

Training a team? See the Site Readiness Programme

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