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CMO Update 43

A communication to all doctors from the Chief Medical Officer (Winter 2005)

  • Last modified date:
    2 August 2007
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    CMO Update 43

CMO Update is a newsletter sent by the Chief Medical Officer of the Department of Health to all doctors in England. CMO Update delivers relevant news from hundreds of officials reporting to the Chief Medical Officer. It also highlights issues raised by other policy teams in the Department of Health and associated agencies, as well as the wider medical community.

Contents

  • A tale of two pandemics (influenza)
  • Changes to non-medical prescribing
  • New developments in the Experts Patients Programme
  • Preventing venous thromboembolism in hospitalised patients
  • A call to action
  • Early detection of renal disease
  • Sports and exercise medicine is the newest specialty
  • Recognising carbon monoxide poisoning
  • Assessing the quality of medical appraisal
  • Body donations needed
  • The effective use of chaperones
  • News in brief (Assessing treatments and technologies, Raising awareness of meningitis, Final disease research network in place, Hypertension toolkit available, Reducing abuse of anaesthetic agents, Free guide to infertility treatment).

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