Hospital Pharmacist
2006;13:387
December 2006

News summary

Pharmacists assessed for Po-210 risk

Pharmacists at University College Hospital, London who were concerned about possible exposure to Polonium-210, following the death last month of Alexander Litvinenko, a former Russian spy, at the hospital, were invited to fill out a Health Protection Agency questionnaire to assess any risk to them.

Robert Urquart, head of pharmacy at University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, said that no pharmacists had gone on to be further assessed.