HC Deb 03 May 2000 vol 349 cc177-8W
Mr. Baker

To ask the Secretary of State for Health if he will make a statement on the teaching of toxicology to medical students. [120499]

Yvette Cooper

[holding answer 2 May 2000]Individual university medical schools determine their own undergraduate medical curricula in the light of the recommendations from the General Medical Council's (GMC) Education Committee, which has the statutory responsibility to determine the extent of knowledge and skill required for the granting of primary medical qualifications in the UK. The Committee's most recent recommendations were published in the 1993 report "Tomorrow's Doctors".

University medical schools are in the process of implementing the recommendations contained in the report and the GMC is monitoring progress.