IT budget and systems
Dear Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency,
Can you please give me an indication of your current IT budget and which IT systems you use to support and manage inspections? Also can you please confirm the number of inspectors and the number of inspections a year?
Yours faithfully,
Monika Wisniewska
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Dear Monika,
Many thanks for your below request, submitted under the Freedom of Information (FOI) Act
From our preliminary assessment, it is clear that we will not be able to answer your request without further clarification. Please can you clarify what you mean by please confirm the number of inspectors and the number of inspections a year?
Once you have clarified your request, we will be able to process this request.
Yours sincerely
I,E&S Foi team
Dear IE&SFOI,
I understand that you are an inspectorate, hence my question about your mobile workforce of inspectors visiting sites and conducting inspections?
Yours sincerely,
Monika
Dear Monika,
Thank you for your email.
We would be grateful if you could clarify which types of inspectors and inspections you are interested in, for example, GMP, GDP, PV, GCP or all.
Kind regards,
I,E&S Foi team
Dear IE&SFOI,
Can you please provide me with number of all inspections on average per year and inspectors who conduct them?
Yours sincerely,
Monika
12th April 2017
Monika Wisniewska
[1][FOI #395507 email]
Dear Monika Wisniewska
REF: FOI 17/113
Thank you for your communication to the MHRA in relation to our
inspections. Below is the answer to your questions,
1) Can you please give me an indication of your current IT budget and
which IT systems you use to support and manage inspections?
Our IT budget is around £30 million in total. We do not divide this by
function. We use Sentinel and Empirica Inspections to support and manage
inspections
2) Can you please confirm the number of inspectors and the number of
inspections a year?
Our inspectors numbers are as follows:
GMP: 25
GDP: 19
GPvP: 8
GCP: 7
GLP: 8
The request for the number of inspections a year is exempt under Section
21 of the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), because the information is
accessible to you, as it is already in the public domain. The number of
inspections carried out annually can be found at [2]www.gov.uk under the
Publications section (Publication type: Corporate reports - Department:
Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency) link as below.
[3]https://www.gov.uk/government/publicatio...
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