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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.

MPDateConstituencyPartyType
Ann Winterton19/03/2008CongletonConservativeProposed
Nigel Evans19/03/2008Ribble ValleyConservativeSeconded
Bob Russell19/03/2008ColchesterLiberal DemocratSeconded
Alan Simpson26/03/2008Nottingham SouthLabourSeconded
Brian Jenkins27/03/2008TamworthLabourSeconded
Colin Breed27/03/2008South East CornwallLiberal DemocratSeconded
Ann Cryer31/03/2008KeighleyLabourSigned
Bill Etherington24/04/2008Sunderland NorthLabourSigned

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