§ The Countess of Marasked Her Majesty's Government:
Whether the Chief Medical Officer's Update 14: "National Focus for work on response to chemical incidents and surveillance of health effects of 14WA environmental chemicals" includes incidents where agricultural pesticides and veterinary medicines affect individuals or groups of people or where illegal practices such as burning of plastic materials on bonfires affect such people; whether the primary reporting point is now to be the National Focus, and whether affected individuals as well as GPs should report such incidents to National Focus.
§ Baroness JayReporting arrangements for both individuals or general practitioners on the suspected effects of exposure to agricultural pesticides and veterinary medicines or of exposure to combustion products of bonfires remain unchanged. The National Focus has been established to support the Department of Health and the National Health Service in responding effectively to accidents causing chemical contamination, and to provide improved co-ordination of local surveillance of the possible health effects of environmental chemicals.