Surrey Branch CQI

Chartered Quality Institute (CQI)
Surrey Branch

(formerly Institute of Quality Assurance)

Branch Programme 2008 / 2009

Tuesday 14th

October 2008

7.30pm, Guildford Spectrum Sports Centre, Parkway

Managing carbon through business excellence

Jon Warren, Senior Consultant with Carbon Ready Ltd. will cover the core carbon management techniques and show how

carbon links to quality management / control.

Tuesday 11th

November 2008

7.30pm, Guildford Spectrum Sports Centre, Parkway

Managing Laboratory Quality

Susan Peters of St. Heliers Hospital Epsom gives an insight into the issues involved in achieving accreditation for a pathology lab to UKAS requirements for Good Laboratory and Management Practice (GLP, GMP) - an interesting opportunity to see where the requirements match and where they vary from the ISO 9001approach. She also explains the workings of Surrey/Sussex Quality Lab group, and how they help lab-based quality practitioners.

Tuesday 10th

February 2009

7.30pm, Guildford Spectrum Sports Centre, Parkway

AGM followed by

Management Systems – are they a hindrance?

After the AGM, Peter Brooke of Dstl uses his many years of experience to challenge us into questioning many of the assumptions made about the processes we use.

Tuesday 10th

March 2009

7.30pm, Guildford Spectrum Sports Centre, Parkway

Quality Engineering

All Surrey branch events are open to members of other CQI branches, the local business community and your non-CQI colleagues. Feel free to invite them; email me to confirm attendance, or to be logged for email messages/reminders of meetings, at hmbell at dstl.gov.uk.

Directions to the Spectrum Sports Centre:

· From M25 (J10) follow signs to Portsmouth (A3).

· Take turn off towards Guildford centre (A320), turn left again at the Parkway Travel Inn traffic lights.

· Turn left at the next set of traffic lights into the Spectrum Sports Centre car park.

· For a detailed map, go to www.multimap.com and type GU1 1UP in the search box.

· Walk up the ramp, through the entrance doors and turn right, down a ramp, turn right at the bottom, through the doors and turn right again. Tea and coffee are usually available before the start of the meeting.

From Guildford’s main line station, the number 100 bus leaves the Friary Bus Station every 12 minutes throughout the day.

From Guildford’s London Road station (20 minute walk)

· Turn left out of the station into York Road.

· Turn left at the traffic lights on to London Road.

· Continue along London Road until you reach Stoke Park.

· Cross the park. Spectrum is located on the opposite side of the A25 to Stoke Park.

Entrance to the Spectrum Sports centre is up a ramp. On entering the building, follow the signs to the Administration Office, take the first doors on the right, which takes you down a ramp, the meeting room is adjacent to the Administration Office on the right. The Spectrum website can be found at: http://www.guildfordspectrum.co.uk/

Contact Information

Chairman: Peter Hills - 01737 772978

Hon Sec: Helen Bell (evening/voicemail) - 01483 574286 E-mail: HMBELL@mail.dstl.gov.uk

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