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Staff training that is really meaningful and has high impact can be difficult to achieve

The sorts of issues that keep coming up in schools such as behaviour management

According to USFDA, a combination product is one composed of any combination of a drug and device; biological product and device; drug and biological product

, inclusion, differentiation and so on are issues that have been around forever ... but often under different labels. Nevertheless, it remains as important as ever to get fresh

; or drug, device, and biological product and fixed dose combination would include two or more combinations of drug.

Examples of combination products may in

ideas and new ways of tackling old problems.

The big education shows

There are many different ways in which schools can manage their staff training days. Some take ad

lude drug-coated devices, drugs packaged with delivery devices in medical kits, and drugs and devices packaged separately but intended to be used together.

vantage of the large exhibition/conference type events like the Education Show or Special Needs London where they can attend the exhibition for free and then pay for the semina

here is enormous increase in the number of combination products entering the market in the recent years. Combination products have proven advantages but fixe

rs they wish to attend. This is very cost-effective, but there is the difficulty (and added expense) of taking staff out of school and paying for cover.

Small, one-day, top

d dose combinations are still in the process of convincing regulatory authority on their advantages over the single ingredient formulations.

Combination pro

ic-focused events

Organisations such as Afasic, the National Autistic Society, NASEN, NDNA put on half and one-day events dealing with specific topics such as speech and l

ucts have become life saving products for the pharmaceutical companies who doesn’t have many innovative molecules in their product pipeline and have been inc

anguage difficulties, Asperger's syndrome, inclusion, making 'Birth to three matters' work for you, education in the early years and so on. These are usually held in hotels or

easingly used in the product life cycle management. Even the companies having product patents are trying to extend their product life cycle through the combi

teachers' centres, are quite intensive and can be good value for money. Some also have follow-up sessions (often twilight) that teachers find very useful.

Cluster groups
nation products and maximize the revenues. But the companies involved in this practice are overlooking that they are burdening the patients both economically
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Not so long ago, training in cluster groups became popular in some areas. This involves a cluster of schools in an area getting together and organising a training event for
and physically. They need to rightly judge the benefits of the combination products and they have to even look at the risks involved when combining the produ
all staff in three or four schools. Costs and organisation are shared and where they do follow this practice, it seems to work very well. Which makes it very surprising that it
ts. Some of the combination products were well accepted by physicians while others suffered. Companies involved in development of combination products are fi
's not followed more widely. In a slightly different format it is very popular in other organisations such as childminders where they get together in regions to have meetings,
ding difficulty in defining their combination products and facing various challenges from selecting a combination to marketing it.

Following aspects would a
share experiences etc.

Running your own training day at school

For many schools this is still very common. A department, or the SENCO, is given the job of organising a
dd to the challenges in developing combination products:

Which markets to tap where the combination products can do fairly well?
Which combination prod
training day on a particular topic. Sometimes staff with expertise do the training themselves. More often, though, a specialist is sought. Most subject specialists in secondar
cts are meaningful and rational?
Which therapeutic categories to select?
Which Combinations can address unmet needs of the patients?
Do combin
y school belong to a subject association like the Maths Association or the Geography Association, for example, and it's not particularly difficult to find specialists in these
tions increase the patient compliance?
What would be the developing cost?
How to tackle the risks encountered during combination product developmen
areas. The difficulty arises when it becomes necessary to find speakers to talk to staff about issues that most teachers find particularly challenging - such as motivating diff
t?

As combination products don't fit into the traditional categories of drugs, medical devices, or biological products, the USFDA is in the process of devel
icult children, dealing with children with ADHD and attention difficulties, managing behaviour, managing autistic children in a mainstream setting, speech and language difficul
ping new procedures for reviewing their safety, efficacy and quality.

Professional from academic institutions, pharmaceutical industries, health care indust
ties, specific learning difficulties, SEN and the Code of Practice in the early years etc ... etc ...

Getting speakers

Given the responsibility of finding speakers and
y and representatives from various regulatory agencies are working out to design the regulatory requirements for manufacture and sale of combination products
organising the day can be a bit daunting, especially as it is so often given to the newly qualified teacher to organise! Well, help is at hand. Very good speakers dealing with
.

As there is an increasing trend of the combination products companies manufacturing such products should be able to tackle the problems involved in the de
the issues outlined above are available ... and quite easy to get details about. The topics are listed in the Speakers' Corner section of the QEd website http://www.qed
elopment. They need to be wiser in analyzing the market trends and the regulatory requirements.

Companies that provide selfless information through particip
.uk.com

Speakers' Details

The speakers have provided contact details, the topics they cover, length of sessions available and, most importantly, how much they charge.

tion in industry events and feedback to regulatory authorities would be able to face the challenges and will be successful in developing combination products

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