In Pharma, patient safety doesn’t stop at manufacturing — it extends all the way to product delivery. Ensuring medicines are always handled, transported, and stored under the right conditions isn’t just best practice — it’s also a regulatory requirement. At Carity Pharma Consultancy, our GDP services are designed to help your organization remain compliant, protect product integrity, and build trust along your supply chain.
Why GDP is Necessary
GDP ensures that medicinal products are distributed in a controlled and traceable manner, their quality is maintained, and they are protected against contamination, falsification, or improper handling.
Regulatory agencies and national authorities strictly require compliance with GDP for wholesale distribution authorization, including:
- Compliant and safe transportation – staying in accordance with established specifications and guidelines alongside putting measures that ensure quality, and standard of products during transportation is very significant. This helps them serve the intended purpose without side effects.
- Controlled temperature storage – having a controlled temperature storage ensures that the drugs’ efficacy and integrity is attended by retaining specific temperature ranges.
- Full traceability and documentation – it is crucial for patient safety, quality control and regulatory compliance. Documentation includes regulatory submissions and manufacturing processes’ records.
- Qualification of suppliers and customers – customer and supplier qualification focus on verifying that both customers and suppliers are authorized to handle or receive medicinal products, often through checking licenses and authorization.
- Robust quality systems – this encompasses a structured quality managing technique, it includes, continuous improvement, risk management, compliance with set standards and process monitoring.
Non-compliance can lead to regulatory action, reputational damage, or even worse — patient harm.
Our GDP Consultancy Services
Carity Pharma Consultancy offers end-to-end GDP support depending on your business model — whether you’re a distributor, wholesaler, or logistic provider.
- Application Support
We offer support with preparing, submitting, and chasing Wholesale Distribution Authorisation applications, including:
Development and review of quality systems documentation – organized documents and records that describe the procedures, processes, Outcomes related to product quality and standards.
GDP inspection preparation – risk of non-compliance is minimized during a GDP inspection ensuring efficacy and safety of medical products throughout the distribution channel.
Liaison with competent authorities – laws and regulations enforced by Authorities results to healthy and positive competition.
- Quality Management System (QMS) Development
A strong QMS is the cornerstone of GDP compliance. We help develop and implement:
Standard Operating Procedures – the standard operating procedures are crucial in promoting quality, efficiency and consistency in that, they provide elaborate instructions for tasks ss
Risk management plans and deviation control – this is beneficial in proactively identifying and mitigating potential problems before they effect production. Moreover, deviation control focus on addressing challenges that occur while manufacturing is ongoing.
Quality and compliance audits – patient’s health is ultimately safeguarded through the quality compliance audits by checking product quality.
- Responsible Person (RP) Services
Legislation requires a named Responsible Person to be responsible for GDP compliance. We offer:
- External RP services
- RP training and mentoring for internal candidates
- Responsible Person oversight support for multiple sites or regions
- GDP Audits & Gap Assessments
We uncover gaps and help you strengthen your compliance status, some of the most significant gaps we uncover include;
Internal audits of GDP processes – the entire supply chain’s integrity, compliance and quality which is significant hugely rely on Good Distribution Product’s internal audit.
Supplier and transport partner audits – to maintain public trust and safeguard pharmaceutical products’ integrity, it is significant to do transport partner and supplier audits.
Corrective and preventive action (CAPA) planning – some poor habits need to be dropped to succeed, likewise, it is good to correct and improve when necessary, to tell areas that need to be improved, it is advisable to do audits and adjust on the shortcomings.
- Training & Continuous Improvement
We train your staff to maintain and improve GDP standards:
Tailored GDP training sessions – to always improve and maintain GDP standards, training your team is very essential. Our team that is specialized on GDP standards matters is very reliable and should be your destination.
Onboarding programs for logistics staff – for efficient service delivery, having an organized staff loaded with significant programs is very ideal, we offer that service as well.
Periodic refresher courses and compliance updates – market dynamics keep shifting, the periodic refresher courses and compliance updates keeps you to the latest market
Why prioritize Carity?
Deep Regulatory Knowledge: Our consultants have hands-on experience with MHRA and EU GDP regulations.
Flexible Support: End-to-end support or specific interventions – we adapt to your needs.
Client Trusted: Start-ups to global distributors rely on Carity for solid, pragmatic GDP guidance.
Strengthen Your Supply Chain, Ready?
Pharmaceutical distribution is under the spotlight more than ever, and compliance isn’t optional. With Carity Pharma Consultancy on your side, you can trust a distribution system that’s compliant, secure, and inspection-ready.
We are open to discuss and outline how our GDP consultancy services can support your business goals and regulatory needs, without limiting your engagements with our specialized team.