Committee on Safety of Medicines

HC Deb 14 March 1988 vol 129 c467W

Mr. Wareing

To ask the Secretary of State for Social Services how many members of the Committee on Safety of Medicines are women; and if he will name them.

Mr. Newton

One woman is currently a member of the Committee on Safety of MedicinesDr. Elizabeth Mayne, MD, FRCP, FRCPath, Department of Haematology, Royal Victoria Hospital, Belfast.

Four women are members of sub committees of the Committee on Safety of Medicines: Dr. Linda Beeley, MA(Oxon), FRCP, Consultant Clinical Pharmacologist, The Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Edgbaston; Dr. Joyce Davidson, MB, BS, FRCGP, General Practitioner, Cardiff; Dr. Elizabeth Miller, MB, BS, BSc, Principal Microbiologist, Communicable Diseases Surveillance Centre, Colindale; Dr. Sheila Wallace, FRCP, DObst, RCOG, Consultant Paediatric Neurologist, University Hospital of Wales, Cardiff.