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CMO Update 23

A communication to all doctors from the Chief Medical Officer (August 1999)

  • Last modified date:
    9 February 2007
  • Gateway reference:
    1999
  • Series number:
    CMO Update 23

CMO's Update is a newsletter sent by the Chief Medical Officer of the Department of Health to all doctors in England. It will incorporate some topics that might otherwise have required an individual letter, progress reports on earlier letters, and other information from the Department of Health that should be of interest to practising doctors.

Contents

  • Saving lives: Our Healthier Nation White Paper
  • Developing and delivering National Service Framework
  • New system for enhanced surveillance of tuberculosis in England and Wales
  • Drug misuse and dependence, guidelines on clinical management (The Orange Book)
  • Cryptosporidium in water: clarification of the advice to the immunocompromised
  • Assurance of pharmaceutical supply over the millennium period - business as usual
  • Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease statistics
  • Helping Smokers Stop
  • Influenza immunisation

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