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CMO Update 35
A communication to all doctors from the Chief Medical Officer (January 2003)
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Last modified date:9 February 2007
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Gateway reference:2003
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Series number:CMO Update 35
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
NB: Revision to item 6 and minor amendment to item 21 Feb 4th.
- Contingency plans for smallpox
- Health clearance for new health care workers - guidance for consultation
- Preventing accidental injury
- Carbon monoxide: increased risk in winter
- Advice to pregnant women during the lambing season
- National Alcohol Harm Reduction Strategy: a consultation
- Smoking cessation: building on success
- Tackling drug misuse in primary care
- Cancer prevention resource launched
- Evidence to support Teenage Pregnancy Strategy
- Cross-cutting review on health inequalities
- Reducing health inequalities - for people with learning disabilities
- Patient safety, medication error and handwriting
- Methotrexate - inappropriate dosing and risk of pneumonitis
- Transfer of prison health to the Department of Health
- Paediatric and Congenital Cardiac Services Review
- Protocol-based care information pack
- Hormone Replacement Therapy - safety information update
- Inhaled corticosteroids and adrenal suppression in children
- Levonelle/Levonelle-2 emergency contraception: new advice
- The Public Health Link system
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