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CMO Update 26
A communication to all doctors from the Chief Medical Officer (May 2000)
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Last modified date:24 September 2007
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Gateway reference:not required
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Series number:CMO Update 26
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
- Major changes to the policy on influenza immunisation
- National Service Framework for Coronary Heart Disease
- Sickness Certification - updated guidance for doctors
- The Food Standards Agency
- GP Vocational Training
- Diabetes - new diagnostic criteria
- Salmonellosis and pet reptiles
- Access and payment arrangements for ex-miners' medical records
- Local teenage pregnancy co-ordinators appointed
- HSE advice on organophosphates
- Wired for health
- VTEC guidance
- Data Protection Act 1998
- Review of Prescribing, Supply and Administration of Medicines
- Clinical examination of the breast in women taking oral contraceptives
- Smoking cessation services
- Drug Misuse and Primary Care
- National Screening Committee website
- What's new on the DH website
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