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Funnell Pharma Consultants was set up by Richard Funnell in 2014 in order to provide high quality, bespoke GMP and QA related support to the pharmaceutical industry. Richard spent seventeen years working across a range of pharmaceutical dosage forms before joining the MHRA as a GMP inspector in 2003. Since then he has inspected hundreds of different manufacturing and distribution sites across the UK and the wider world. The benefits of that experience together with up to date knowledge of the MHRA inspectorate and its internal operations is now available to your company. Whether you be large or small, old or new, in the UK or elsewhere in the world we have something to offer. See our services for further details.
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Our Company Services
Funnell Pharma Consultants Ltd are able to offer a wide range of services to manufacturers either in the UK or abroad; either as single assignments or over the longer term.
MOCK REGULATORY INSPECTIONS
Are you expecting a regulatory inspection and want to check how your factory would fare? Or maybe you want to get an independent view of the state of your compliance with regulatory requirements and expectations? Based on Richard's vast experience of working as an MHRA GMDP inspector we can conduct mock regulatory inspections of a wide range of manufacturing facilities including:
• Sterile and non-sterile dosage form manufacturers.
• IMP manufacturing sites.
• Sterile API manufacturers.
• Hospital type specials units including radio pharmacies.
• Importers.
• Storage and distribution establishments.
• Virtual sites.QUALITY MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS
Richard has built up first-hand knowledge of hundreds of quality systems. These range from very basic paper-based types used by small operations to sophisticated, multi-functional computer-based systems appropriate to large organisations processing large numbers of deviations, CAPAs and change controls. Such knowledge can be used to help you; whether you are starting up a new operation from scratch, or need a health-check against the latest requirements of Chapter 1.
SUPPLIER SELECTION
Are you looking for a new supplier for some of your products or raw materials? Richard can visit your prospective supplier whether they be in the UK or overseas and provide you with an assessment of the levels of GMP in place and, if necessary, a list of changes designed to help them to survive a possible EU regulatory inspection.
REMEDIATION
Do you have quality problems within your factory? Perhaps they were identified during a regulatory inspection or an internal audit. We can supply sound independent help and advice free of any potential company political considerations or “hidden agendas”. We can address the problems based on years of experience with the MHRA inspectorate giving high level guidance or detailed analyses of the specific issues. We can help generate CAPA plans likely to satisfy the regulatory inspector having had to go through many hundreds such plans over the last eleven years.
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Located in central Norfolk UK.
Postal Address
Old Rectory Rectory Road Hockering Dereham Norfolk NR20 3HW
Telephone: +447468428806
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At Funnell Pharma we take scrupulous care of all data and information. We encourage clients to send in their own confidentiality agreements to be signed off and put in place before any substantive work is performed. Contact information accumulated during the everyday activities of the company is limited to business email addresses and telephone numbers. We will never pass these on to any other party (for example another consultant who may be able to offer specialist expertise) without the explicit permission of the client.
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Richard Funnell
After being awarded a degree in Chemistry at the University of Oxford in 1985, Richard went to work at the Welcome Foundation in Dartford in the tablet manufacturing department. Apart from a year spent living in northern Canada he spent the next eighteen years in a wide variety of roles in the production and quality assurance of tablets, oral liquids and sterile products. This included five years spent in International QA at Glaxo Welcome where he help set group quality policy and also audited a wide variety of subsidiaries, contract manufacturers and suppliers in thirty or so different countries. On top of this he ran a number of quality workshops at GW factories around the world. He became QP eligible in 2002. In 2003 Richard left the industry and began work at the MHRA as a Medicines Inspector. In the last eleven years he has inspected approximately 250 different sites within the UK and dozens of overseas factories, mainly in the USA and India. He became a Senior GMP Inspector in 2007 and the lead for IMP manufacture. He has worked closely with GCP and colleagues from the Clinical Trials Unit since then to ensure a consistent interpretation of the legislation and coherent communication with the industry. He wrote the FAQs on GMP for IMPs currently on the MHRA website and has spoken at many seminars and conferences on the subject. More recently he has made contributions to the GCP "Grey" Guide and the MHRA input into the new EU GCP regulations. In addition, Richard spent much time training and mentoring other inspectors. He sat on a small committee of senior GMP personnel reviewing actions and plans following the discovery of serious issues at manufacturing sites. He also worked with colleagues from other EU member states and the FDA conducting a number of joint inspections of overseas sites. More specifically he worked on topics related to QP's roles and responsibilities, presenting on the subject at a number of MHRA GMP symposia. He worked on the drafting group of the revised version of Annex 16 with other inspectors from around the EU. Richard left the MHRA in October 2014 to start up Funnell Pharma Consultants Ltd.