§ Mr. Ashleyasked the Secretary of State for Social Services if he will give (a) the number of clinical pharmacologists of consultant status practising in National Health Service hospitals, (b) the number of district general hospitals that do not have 212W a clinical pharmacologist of consultant status and (c) the number of training posts in clinical pharmacology.
§ Sir George YoungAt 30 September 1979, in England and Wales, the numbers of consultants, and of doctors in training grades in the speciality of clinical pharmacology, were 36 and 30 respectively. I regret that information on the number of training posts, or on the distribution of consultant posts between individual hospitals, is not held centrally.
§ Mr. Ashleyasked the Secretary of State for Social Services whether any progress has been made with the proposal for regional clinical pharmacology units put forward by professors of clinical pharmacology in their evidence to the Royal Commission on the Health Service.
§ Sir George YoungThe Royal Commission made no recommendation on this subject in its report. The decision whether to establish regional units is one for regional health authorities but most medical schools have chairs of clinical pharmacology and the units associated with those chairs are normally regarded as regional units.