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CMO Update 12
A communication to all doctors from the Chief Medical Officer (October 1996)
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Last modified date:9 February 2007
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Gateway reference:1996
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Series number:CMO Update 12
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
- On the State of the Public Health
- Influenza information leaflets for patients
- Intensive care national bed-state register
- Pregnancy and avoidance of infection from food and from contact with animals
- Breast cancer screening
- Burdens of disease
- Death certification and referral to the coroner
- New variant of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease
- Wheelchair initiatives
- Adverse reactions to latex medical devices
- Choice and opportunity in primary care
- Asthma patient card
- Health Survey for England
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