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CMO Update 34
A communication to all doctors from the Chief Medical Officer (September 2002)
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Last modified date:9 February 2007
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Gateway reference:2002
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Series number:CMO Update 34
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:
- Modernising the Senior House Officer Grade
- Advertising and prescribing of Botox for 'cosmetic use'
- Consultation on a hepatitis C strategy for England
- Guidance on hepatitis C infected health care workers
- Epogam and Efamast (gamolenic acid) withdrawal of marketing authorisations
- First Patient Safety Alert Issued: Concentrated Potassium Solutions
- Expert Patients Programme: pilot activity now under way
- Climate change: effects on health
- Successful campaign to prevent meningitis in pilgrims to Saudi Arabia
- Risk of pneumococcal meningitis in non-vaccinated cochlear implant patients
- Influenza Immunisation Campaign 2002/3
- STOP PRESS
- Better Blood Transfusion - Appropriate Use of Blood
- Eileen Trust has funds to support patients and their dependants
- European Public Health Programme to be launched next year
- New On The Web:
Work of the Public Health Observatories
Health inequalities
Smoking research In The North West
Health for asylum seekers and refugees portal
CJD figures
SunSafe website
Weaning and long term ventilation
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