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CMO Update 31
A communication to all doctors from the Chief Medical Officer (October 2001)
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Last modified date:9 February 2007
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Gateway reference:2001
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Series number:CMO Update 31
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
- The Bristol Royal Infirmary Inquiry
- Expert patients programme
- New sexual health and HIV strategy
- Risk of HIV transmission with oral sex
- Tuberculosis - a 19th century disease in the 21st century
- Treatment choice in psychological therapies
- Primary Care Cancer Leads
- Health Select Committee on Public Health
- From Vision to Reality
- Landfill sites and birth outcomes and cancers
- Changes in maternity certificates and incapacity for work forms
- Down syndrome screening
- Consultation - new regulatory system for private medical practitioners
- Informed Choice Project for PSA testing
- Breast and pelvic examination in women taking HRT
- Extension of independent prescribing to more nurses
- Creutzfeldt Jakob Disease
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