HC Deb 10 May 1993 vol 224 c355W
Mr. Soley

To ask the Secretary of State for Health if laboratory technicians working for national health service hospitals are designated as medical laboratory scientific officers; and if such persons are required to have MLSO training before they can apply for employment in the NHS as laboratory technicians.

Dr. Mawhinney

Medical laboratory scientific officer (MLSO) is a term used to describe staff who perform a certain range of technical, analytical and investigative functions in national health service clinical laboratories. Pay and grading agreements of the NHS professional and technical staffs B Whitley council require staff discharging that range of MLSO functions to meet the qualification