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CMO Update 36
A communication to all doctors from the Chief Medical Officer (August 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 36
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
- Annual Report of the Chief Medical Officer 2002
- West Nile Fever
- Transmissible spongiform encephalopathy agents - safe working and the prevention of infection
- Launch of 5 A Day Programme
- Food and health action plan
- SACN recommendations on salt intake
- Health inequalities programme for action
- Updating patients' notes: coroner's letter
- Clinical negligence report publication
- New GP appraisal website
- Medical leadership
- Interim framework for use of human organs and tissues
"Saving Lives, Valuing Donors"
-Transplant Framework for England- Information about Fibromyalgia Association leaflet
- CFS/ME service investment of £8.5 million central budget to pump prime development between April 2004 -2006
- Genetics White Paper
- Increased ciprofloxacin resistance in gonorrhea
- New labelling of medicines containing peanut oil
- Screening for infectious diseases in pregnancy (stop press - special web update)
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