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31 August 2005
There are around 61 million mobile phones already in use in the UK today. A number of other wireless-based technologies are being introduced to the home and workplace and it is clear that such devices will increase in number and diversity.
9 February 2005
A recent edition of the Health Protection Agency's Communicable Diseases Report highlighted a potential risk for healthcare associated infection from an organism called Acinetobacter baumannii, which is resistant to many antibiotics.
9 February 2005
Action on obesity, sexually transmitted diseases, alcohol abuse and smoking is at the top of the agenda in the new White Paper on public health.
26 May 2004
This feature on the Chief Medical Officer's website examines the progress of the NHS since its inception and discusses the ways in which it has been improving its care for patients over the years.
14 August 2003
This feature celebrates the outstanding contribution made to the NHS by doctors from ethnic minorities.
26 June 2003
Public Health has always been one of the most important areas of health policy. This feature describes how the many strands of work in public health interact to protect and promote the health of the population.
12 May 2006
'On the state of the public health: Annual report of the Chief Medical Officer 2004' won an 'Award for Excellence' for the creative communications agency, Redhouse Lane who produced the report.
4 April 2005
The launch of the new UK-wide curriculum for junior doctors on 4 April 2005, as part of the Modernising Medical Careers programme, signals a groundbreaking change in postgraduate medical training. The world-leading programme will provide graduates with far broader exposure to medical practice and specialties than was previously provided.
14 March 2005
The Ministry of Defence published an updated guide in February 2005 for general practitioners and other health professionals, to use when dealing with the health concerns of veterans of the 1990/1991 Gulf conflict.
3 March 2005
The Chief Medical Officer was asked by ministers to carry out a review of the issues arising from the Shipman Inquiry's fifth report, which explored how the NHS systems of the time failed to prevent a doctor from murdering so many patients. The ‘Call for Ideas’ gathered views on what the review should cover.
9 February 2005
A Department of Health video demonstrating safe administration of intrathecal chemotherapy has won several awards at events around the world.
2 February 2005
CMO's Annual Report 2002 called for urgent action to replace the existing guidance on suspension of doctors and dentists and this has now been provided by the publication of HSC 2003/012 Maintaining High Professional Standards in the Modern NHS.
7 October 2004
The Chief Medical Officer, Sir Liam Donaldson, has announced new measures to tackle the rise of tuberculosis in Britain, a serious but treatable infectious disease.
15 December 2003
The Chief Medical Officer has written to a number of organisations with a remit or interest in education and assessment in medicine, seeking their views on a Guiding Principles document drawn up by him after discussion with a small number of key stakeholders.
12 November 2003
Exercise Global Mercury was an international exercise designed to test communications between national health agencies in the event of a possible smallpox incident.
