[Tony Schofield]

I believe the dispensing assistant course, the first three modules of the NVQ 3 qualification is indeed NVQ 2. I don't recognise it I'm afraid. I pay my staff a small increase for achieving the knowledge part of the NVQ 3 and a big increase for achieving the full NVQ 3. I'm afraid as a responsible pharmacist I couldn't allow any autonomy to someone with a qualification of such poor quality.