Poisons Information Service

EDM number 1233 in 2007-08, proposed by Ann Winterton on 19/03/2008.
Categorised under the topics of Animal welfare and Health services.

That this House expresses its concern about the threat to the future of the Guy's and St Thomas' Poisons Unit (GTPU) which provides a 24-hour poisons advice and support service to clinical staff in both human and animal healthcare; notes that it has operated continuously for 44 years and has answered over 2.8 million telephone enquiries; further expresses its concern that the Health Protection Agency has decided not to offer the Guy's and St Thomas' Foundation Trust a contract to provide a poisons information service of which the Veterinary Poisons Information Service (VPIS) is a part; recognises that the loss of the VPIS would have serious implications for animal welfare; and calls on the Department of Health to take urgent action to secure the long-term future of the VPIS regardless of the outcome of the current discussions between the Guy's and St Thomas' Foundation Trust and the Health Protection Agency.

This motion has been signed by a total of 8 MPs.