- Home
- About
- 🤖 AskAnzal AI Advisor
- 📅 Book a Call
- Your Account
- My AskAnzal Account
Bespoke Compliance Workshops
Half-day and full-day workshops using real PMCPA cases, your actual materials, and scenario-led discussion — not slides and a quiz. Delivered on-site or virtually for cross-functional UK pharma teams.
Discuss Your Workshop →The problem
Completing a mandatory e-learning module once a year does not change how your team behaves when they are facing a real deadline with a grey-area question. These are the situations bespoke workshop training is designed to address.
Off-the-shelf courses use abstract examples and cover every possible topic in equal depth. Your team leaves remembering very little that is relevant to their day-to-day decisions — and forgetting it entirely within a week.
When medical and marketing are not aligned on what the Code requires, every material becomes a negotiation. Review rounds multiply, launches slow, and frustration builds on both sides. The Code is not ambiguous — but it needs to be understood together.
Rule recall and decision-making are different skills. A team that can recite Chapter 26 may still be unable to structure a compliant advisory board when the scenario is real and the deadline is in 48 hours. Scenario-led training bridges this gap.
Pre-launch is the highest-risk period for a compliance failure. If the commercial team does not understand how the Code applies to the campaign before it goes live, the first review cycle becomes the compliance education — at exactly the wrong moment.
One-Day Workshop Formats
Each workshop uses a distinct immersive theme to make the learning memorable and the scenarios feel real. Delivered on-site or virtually. Topics are confirmed and tailored during a pre-session scoping call.
These are starting points. Any topic, any format, any team size. Book a 30-minute scoping call and we'll design around you.
What's covered
Each workshop is scoped during a pre-session call. Topics are prioritised based on your team's most frequent challenges, upcoming activities, and any recent near-misses or PMCPA cases in your therapy area.
A 30-minute call with the organiser to understand the team's roles, current challenges, upcoming activities, and any specific materials or scenarios they want to work through.
The workshop is built around your team's actual context. PMCPA case studies are selected for relevance to your therapy area. Scenarios are written using your material types and real-world situations your team faces.
No passive slide reading. Participants are working through scenarios, making decisions, and understanding why the Code leads to specific outcomes — with expert facilitation throughout.
A written summary of key principles, relevant Code clauses, and the decision-making frameworks discussed — so the learning is available when the team needs it in practice, not just immediately after the session.
What clients say
“We have done a lot of compliance training. This was the first time marketing actually listened — because Anzal was using our own materials and showing us exactly where we would have a problem. It was not theoretical. It was uncomfortable in the right way.”— Head of Compliance, UK pharma affiliate
“Three hours that did more than three years of annual Code training. The scenarios were real, the examples were current, and the team left with a decision-making framework they actually use when a grey-area question comes up. We have seen the difference in review quality.”— Medical Affairs Director, specialty pharma company
Who this is for
Bespoke workshops deliver the most value when the team has real decisions to make and real consequences if they get those decisions wrong. If that describes your situation, this is built for you.
Medical, marketing, and regulatory together — aligning interpretation of the Code before a campaign, launch, or new activity type goes live.
Companies entering the UK market for the first time who need their entire team to understand the ABPI Code before they begin promotional activity.
Pre-launch Code training focused specifically on the activity types planned for the campaign — so the team is ready before the first material enters review.
Sales representatives and medical science liaisons who need practical, scenario-led Code training relevant to their specific field interactions and material types.
Regulatory affairs and compliance teams who need to develop the depth of Code knowledge required to advise commercial colleagues with confidence and consistency.
Senior leadership and country management who need to understand ABPI Code obligations at a strategic level — particularly around signatory responsibilities and governance structures.
Common questions
Workshops run as either a half-day session (approximately three hours) or a full-day session (approximately six hours, including breaks). Half-day workshops work well for a focused topic area or a team with a clear specific challenge. Full-day sessions allow broader coverage across multiple topic areas and more extended scenario work. The right format is discussed during the scoping call.
Yes — and we actively encourage it. Participants learn more from working through a real piece of their own content than from an abstract example. Materials submitted in advance are reviewed and integrated into the session as appropriate. All materials are treated in strict confidence.
For interactive, scenario-led on-site sessions, up to 20 participants allows for effective facilitation and discussion. For larger groups, virtual delivery can accommodate more participants, and the format adapts accordingly. If you have specific numbers in mind, discuss on the call and we will find the right structure.
Any area of the ABPI Code — the six topics listed above cover the most common workshop areas, but sessions can be designed around specific activity types such as patient organisation interactions, named patient programmes, NIS studies, or cross-border digital campaigns. The topic scope is confirmed during the pre-workshop scoping call.
Book a scoping call to discuss your team, your challenges, and how a bespoke workshop can be designed around your specific situation.
Book a Scoping Call →Need instant answers?
ABPI Code compliance, pharmacovigilance, GVP modules, signal detection and more. Ask anything, get structured referenced answers in seconds. From £9/month.
One real case. One key lesson. Every week — free.