Partnership for Learning

Merseyside's leading training provider, Partnership for Learning (PFL), is a unique training conferencing and business resource. It was established when some of the area's major employers - Jaguar, Eli Lilly & Company and Novartis - decided to pool their resources to provide a high quality training, conference and meeting facility.

Based in Speke, PFL are due to launch a series of bespoke e-learning courses which are the first of their kind in the North West for biopharmaceutical and medical device companies.

Paver Smith has been engaged to provide PR support for the centre by promoting their new courses aimed at the biopharmaceutical and medical device sectors.

The courses, which will be delivered over the internet using an e-learning model, have been developed to answer the skills shortage which was identified in a major study into the biopharmaceutical industry.

Topics on the programme which is called Bio-med online can take learners through batch records, GMP principles, IT validation, packaging, production, quality assurance, quality control and warehousing.

The programme can be accessed at work or even from home - the flexibility means that skills training is even easier for employers to take advantage of.

The North West is one of the UK's top locations for the pharmaceutical and biotech industries. With over 200 biomedical companies and over 20,000 staff, the North West exports £3.4 billion of pharmaceutical products every year.