What needs maintaining?
A QMS can be compared to a spiders web, intricate lines of communication and documentation, with the main purpose of catching any failures to compliance or risk to patient safety. Below are mechanisms that are used to do this.
Change Controls
Change controls are key to managing the evolution of your business. Working alongside your risk assessments you must take into account not only the positives of making the change, but the possible dangers. Using your change control form you can focus on each step, from proposal, to review of the change after its been implemented.
Management Reviews
Whilst nobody's favorite, meetings are key to sharing information, taking a step back and assessing where the quality system is. These meetings an help the team delegate time and effort into areas that may be overlooked, or where trends are starting to take shape.
Deviations
Whilst no one likes them, they can be so valuable in highlighting deficiencies in your quality system. From staff needing additional training to your processes missing minor steps. Deviations are sometimes angels in disguise, so use them to help better your quality system.
CAPA
Corrective and preventative actions often stem from a deviation, where as the name suggests, the issue is bad enough to warrant a immediate correct actions, and further preventative actions to mitigate the risk of the same mistake happening again.