Letters From A Tory (Free subscription) | 14/11/2008
Dear Sir Liam Donaldson, As Chief Medical Officer I would hope that your first priority is to guarantee the safety and well-being of patients. I appreciate that thanks to our socialist overlords, there is a bit of a craze going round at the moment where you use the economic crisis to take control of as many [...]
Medgadget (Free subscription) | 19/09/2008
Coming from the "why didn't I think of that" department, UK hospitals are about to embark on systematic screening of all hospitalized patients. Sir Liam Donaldson, Chief Medical Officer, Department of Health (England), said "The dangers of venous thromboembolism in hospitalised patients have long been recognised, but our challenge was to find a systematic approach to identify patients most at risk....
Chez Sam's (Free subscription) | 17/08/2008
The 'inventor' of MMC has been reported to the GMC. "Strike off Sir Liam say docs" "Furious medics want the country's top doctor Sir Liam Donaldson STRUCK OFF. More than 1,400 doctors think Sir Liam, the Government's chief medical officer, should face charges of bringing his profession into disrepute. They blame him for last year's promotions fiasco that left 12,000 junior doctors jobless. And they...
Medical News Today (Free subscription) | 24/07/2008
Plans to improve patient safety and support professionals in sustaining their high standards, were today set out by the Chief Medical Officer for England (CMO) Sir Liam Donaldson.
Daily News Analysis (Free subscription) | 23/07/2008
Doctors will have to show they are fit to practice once every five years under plans to be published by Chief Medical Officer Liam Donaldson
Medical News Today (Free subscription) | 23/07/2008
Chief Medical Officer for England (CMO) Sir Liam Donaldson has laid out plans which will require that doctors renew their professional registration every five years. Sir Liam said they are aimed at improving patient safety and supporting professionals in sustaining their high standards. The proposals are outlined in the report Medical revalidation - Principles and next steps (PDF).
Pickled Politics (Free subscription) | 23/07/2008
Chief Medical officer for England, Sir Liam Donaldson declared last week that ethnic minority doctors in the NHS faced systematic racism, prejudice and harrassment, saying many doctors’ careers have been impeded due to this. In his annual report on the state of the nation’s health he called for a “clear committment” to tackle racism in [...]
Radio 4 - Today (Free subscription) | 23/07/2008
All doctors in the UK will face annual assessments which could see licences removed from poor performers. The proposals mean GPs, hospital consultants and private practitioners would have to renew their licences every five years, under proposals from the chief medical officer, Liam Donaldson. Patients organisations have welcomed the news, saying they have been waiting for such an initiative since the...
The Brown Stuff (Free subscription) | 23/07/2008
Several front page-type news stories today. The main one is the release of a report by the Chief Medical Officer, Sir Liam Donaldson, on revlaidation of doctors. In principle, I think is a "good thing". But I am a little worried about the details, because that is where the Devil is. And, in my (not so) humble opinion, Donaldson has failed the profession several times in recent years, the most reprehensible...
Christian Today (Free subscription) | 23/07/2008
Doctors will have to show they are fit to practice once every five years under plans to be published by Chief Medical Officer Liam Donaldson on Wednesday
Reuters UK (Free subscription) | 23/07/2008
LONDON (Reuters) - Doctors will have to show they are fit to practice once every five years under plans to be published by Chief Medical Officer Liam Donaldson on Wednesday.
Physorg (Free subscription) | 17/07/2008
(PhysOrg.com) -- The week the government's chief medical officer for England, Sir Liam Donaldson, has announced that the NHS aims to create immunisation against two of the most common superbugs, MRSA and Clostridium difficile, within the next decade. But a research team led by University of Sunderland scientists has made a major breakthrough in the fight against a deadly hospital infection which kills...
Medical News Today (Free subscription) | 17/07/2008
The week the government's chief medical officer for England, Sir Liam Donaldson, has announced that the NHS aims to create immunisation against two of the most common superbugs, MRSA and Clostridium difficile, within the next decade.
Red Orbit (Free subscription) | 16/07/2008
YOUNG drivers should face a zero legal blood alcohol limit, the country's top doctor said yesterday. Chief medical officer Sir Liam Donaldson said that, although the measure for motorists aged 17-20 might prove unpopular it would reduce road deaths among young people.
The ThunderDragon (Free subscription) | 15/07/2008
Liam Donaldson, chief medical officer, is proposing a new authoritarian policy - cutting the legal blood alcohol limit for drivers aged 17-20 to zero. That is a stupid idea for various reasons: Young/new drivers are rarely the ones who drink and drive. They tend to have far more respect for the road and other drivers than older [...]
