Any member of staff involved in the dispensing process must meet the GPhC's minimum training requirements for this type of role and start training within three months of starting in the role. To meet minimum training requirements a dispensing/pharmacy assistant needs to take the relevant modules of the Level 2 certificate in pharmacy service skills.

This course meets the GPhC minimum training requirements for dispensing assistants. It meets the following units of the GPhC minimum training requirements:

- Assist with the provision of a pharmacy service to meet individuals' needs
- Ensure your own actions reduce risks to health and safety
- Contribute to the effectiveness of teams
- Receive prescriptions
- Assemble prescribed items
- Assist in the issuing of prescribed items
- Receive pharmaceutical stock
- Maintain pharmaceutical stock
- Order routine pharmaceutical stock
- Assist in the issuing of pharmaceutical stock

After successfully completing this course, colleagues will be able to confidently receive, assemble and deliver a prescription as part of the wider pharmacy team and achieve the recognised qualification of Dispensing Assistant, accredited by the GPhC.