Guy's Hospital: Poisons

(asked on 27th January 2023) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether the toxicologists based in Guy's Hospital's Poisons Unit are employed directly by the (a) Department of Health and Social Care, (b) NHS or (c) other organisation.


Answered by
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Will Quince
This question was answered on 9th February 2023

The three consultant clinical toxicologists (and two emergency physicians with an interest in clinical toxicology) are all employed by Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust (GSTT) with full-time National Health Service contracts.

Guy’s Poisons Unit closed over 15 years ago. Poisons information services in the United Kingdom are run by the National Poisons Information Service (NPIS) which has units in Birmingham, Newcastle, Cardiff and Edinburgh. Two of the GSTT Consultant Clinical Toxicologists are on the NPIS consultant on call rota.

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