Quality management

Experts share their knowledge on specific topics in webinars and workshops. The GBN QM team organises and moderates these events. GBN announces topics and registration information in its event calendar.

Here are two examples of past webinars: 

• Handling of infectious samples
• Management of external service providers

The "quality circles" series focuses on the exchange of experience among the GBA partners; the partners discuss various topics there, such as the validation of ambient conditions for nitrogen tanks using best practice examples. Recommendations for action are developed in the quality circles and then made available.

Since 2018, GBN, in cooperation with TÜV Süd, has twice trained approximately 15 experts from the GBA community as auditors. They have been active as auditors within the GBA since then. The training courses comprised a three-day standard-specific part and a two-day subject-specific part with biobanking experts. The training was completed with an online test and a "witness audit", in which the technical and standards-specific competence was tested. In addition to members of the GBA community, representatives of the German Centers for Health Research and the National Cohort participated in each training session.