Letters and urgent communications archive
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Relevant letters containing advice form the Chief Medical Officer to health professionals for the period of 2000-2004
Documents
- HSS(MD) 43/2004 21 December 2004 - Advice on the use of Celecoxib and other selective COX-2 inhibitors in light of concerns about cardiovascular safety
- HSS(MD) 29/2004 21 September 2004 - Variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (vCJD) and plasma products
- HSS(MD) 21/2004 21 June 2004 - Update on decontamination of Endoscopes
- HSS(MD) 20/2004 15 June 2004 - Decontamination of Endoscopes
- HSS(MD) 18/2004 1 June 2004 - Incident involving a Gastroscope at Lagan Valley Hospital
- HSS(MD) 2004 May 2004 Recommendations on breastfeeding duration and weaning
- HSS(MD) 17/2004 17 May 2004 - Reducing the risk of exposure of patients to the agent of CJD through brain biopsy procedures
- HSS(MD) 10/2004 2 April 2004 - Good practice in consent – regional forms and guides
- HSS(MD) 8/2004 19 March 2004 -Protecting the blood supply from variant CJD: deferral of donors who have received a blood transfusion
- HSS(MD) 48/2003 4 December 2003 - Further advice on safety of HRT: risk, benefit unfavourable for first-line use in prevention of Osteoporosis
- HSS(MD) 45/2003 24 November 2003 - Updated national guidance on the safe administration of Intrathecal Chemotherapy
- HSS(MD) 43/2003 10 November 2003 - Increased risk of breast cancer after supradiaphragmatic radiotherapy for Hodgkin’s disease
- HSS(MD) 36/2003 13 August 2003 - Transmissible spongiform encephalopathy agents: safe working and the prevention of infection: publication of revised guidance
- HSS(MD) 36/2002 27 November 2002 - Good practice guidelines for renal dialysis/transplantation units prevention and control of blood borne viruses infection
- HSS(MD) 32/2002 31 October 2002 - Cluster wound Botulism cases in injecting drug users
- HSS(MD) 30/2002 18 October 2002 - GP appraisal
- HSS(MD) 2002 18 October 2002 - Guidance note to general practitioners on the transfer of seriously ill patients from home to hospital
- HSS(MD) 10/2002 29 May 2002 - Tonsil and Adenoid surgery
- HSS(MD) 7/2002 27 March 2002 - Long term use of oral contraceptives and risk of cervical cancer in women with high risk type Human Papilloma virus
- HSS(MD) 5/2002 22 March 2002 - Tamoxifen and risk of Thromboembolic events
- HSS(MD) 16/2001 12 June 2001 - Investigation into retained organs
- HSS(MD) 6/2001 1 February 2001 - Single use for Tonsillectomy and Adenoidectomy
- HSS(MD) 3/2001 25 January 2001 - Retention of organs following postmortems
- HSS(MD) 5/2000 27 March 2000 - Management of patients with acute head injury