Is a ''SQP'' as good as a Pharmacist?

Re: Is a ''SQP'' as good as a Pharmacist?

Hannah Wynne Richards — Fri, 12 Nov 2010 11:36:01 GMT

Definitely sloppily qualified

Wynne

Re: Is a ''SQP'' as good as a Pharmacist?

Mark Holmes — Fri, 12 Nov 2010 09:55:12 GMT

SQP, slightly qualified, sloppily qualified or significantly quizzical person?

Re: Is a ''SQP'' as good as a Pharmacist?

Bob Russell — Fri, 12 Nov 2010 09:38:48 GMT

[quote user="Laurence Webb"]

A vet is suitably qualified, as is a pharmacist. The bloke working in the agricultural merchant is too. For some strange reason a RVN isn't

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but it is this 'bloke in the agricultural merchant' that is now considered fully trained to make the decision as to which prescription only medicine his 'client' should use. The idea that anyone with days of training rather than years should be considered fit to prescribe is so insulting as to defy belief.

How much parasite resistance on farms can be attributed to poor advice given at the merchants (I accept that with the loss of wormer sales many vets gave up with advising farmers in the past). Sales were often based on price, advertising, free gifts and pretty boxes!

Many (if not most) 'SQP's' are minimally trained sales assistants, nothing more. To make any comparison to degree holders is a disgrace.

Vets, pharmacists (and nurses) are not SQP's they are properly trained persons - PQP's

Re: Is a ''SQP'' as good as a Pharmacist?

Laurence Webb — Fri, 12 Nov 2010 00:39:06 GMT

A vet is suitably qualified, as is a pharmacist. The bloke working in the agricultural merchant is too. For some strange reason a RVN isn't

Re: Is a ''SQP'' as good as a Pharmacist?

Evelyn Barbour-Hill — Thu, 11 Nov 2010 22:51:18 GMT

[quote user="Martin Atkinson"]

It had occurred to me that I and my nurses were totally unqualified to flog Frontline and Drontal over the counter to any Tom, Dick or Harry that comes through the door when we haven't got an SQP. Should I fear the full weight of the law bearing down on my shoulders if I continue to do so and be classed in the same category as the shopkeeper who sells fags to a 12 year old?

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SQP stands for "suitably qualified person". That's you. Or your VN. I think the wording about "suitably qualified person" was meant to keep the legislation broad, not to create a new profession of "SQP". I'm probably wrong, being a cynical old grump, but I think the idea of a professional "SQP" was invented by DEFRA.

"What do you want to do when you grow up, little dear?" "Mummy, mummy, I want to be a suitably qualified person"

Re: Is a ''SQP'' as good as a Pharmacist?

Bob Russell — Thu, 11 Nov 2010 12:49:55 GMT

[quote user="Martin Atkinson"]

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Amazing how years of training count for nothing when the drug companies want to sell medicines with little control!!!

Re: Is a ''SQP'' as good as a Pharmacist?

Martin Atkinson — Thu, 11 Nov 2010 10:13:30 GMT

Re: Is a ''SQP'' as good as a Pharmacist?

Mark Holmes — Wed, 10 Nov 2010 18:16:01 GMT

I think if you replace "better placed" with the word "cheaper" you will come closer to the true nature of the debate!