National Poisons Information Centre Website

Welcome to the web-site of the National Poisons Information Centre, Beaumont Hospital, Dublin, Ireland.  We hope that you will find it interesting and informative.  Please use our contact form to tell us which parts of the site you found most useful, or to let us know about information you would like us to add in the future. 

Our main function is to provide information to doctors and healthcare professionals, to assist them in the management of acute poisoning. Our telephone information service is available 24 hours per day and 365 days a year.  Calls are recorded and data stored electronically for quality assurance and training purposes.  The Centre is funded by the Health Service Executive. 

Our second function is to collect and analyse epidemiological data on acute poisoning. We produce an annual report each year and can provide more detailed data to regulatory authorities on request. 

The Centre is the body responsible for receiving information relating to emergency health response under Article 45 of EU Regulation 1272/2008 on classification, labelling and packaging of chemical substances and mixtures (CLP regulations): click here for more information on this. The Centre is also the contracting body for TOXBASE, an on-line clinical toxicology database used by hospital emergency departments and intensive care units.  We liaise with the database administrators to ensure that relevant Irish products are listed on TOXBASE.