Senior Clinical Medical Officer Research Articles

Wendy Patricia Holmes

Wendy Patricia Holmes spent her career in Kent, successively as an assistant county medical officer, senior medical officer, senior clinical medical officer, and consultant community paediatrician (child development). Working mainly...

United Kingdom community growth screening 1994: a survey of current practice. "Screening for Growth Towards 2000" Scientific Organising Committee.

To determine current policies, resources, and attitudes to community growth screening in the United Kingdom. A postal survey of community paediatricians and paediatric endocrinologists. 164 replies were received-most from senior clinical medical officers or community paediatricians-covering between 68 and 78% of the United Kingdom population. One hundred and thirty three (81%) trusts or districts had a written growth policy. Preschool and school age height screening took place in 75% and 81% of districts respectively, but most children were only measured once before school or at school. Policies for the age at which measurements were made and their frequency varied enormously. Seventy three per cent used standard equipment, the most popular being the Minimetre. A wide variety of charts were used, of which 23% were decimal age charts. A large number of referral criteria were used, including height, height velocity, and weight. Most children were referred to hospital outpatient clinics rather than specialist growth clinics. Over 90% of respondents felt that growth screening was either extremely valuable or useful depending on resources. The survey showed a widespread lack of standardisation of equipment, charts, and policies. Referral criteria and objectives need to be clarified by research and audit, and growth monitoring integrated into a systematic programme of child health surveillance.

Editor's note

BJOG: An International Journal of Obstetrics & GynaecologyVolume 100, Issue 3 p. 297-298 Editor's note A. Webb, A. Webb Senior Clinical Medical Officer South Manchester Health Authority Palatine Centre 63/65 Palatine Road Manchester M20 9LJ UKSearch for more papers by this authorY. Stedman, Y. Stedman Senior Clinical Medical Officer South Manchester Health Authority Palatine Centre 63/65 Palatine Road Manchester M20 9LJ UKSearch for more papers by this author A. Webb, A. Webb Senior Clinical Medical Officer South Manchester Health Authority Palatine Centre 63/65 Palatine Road Manchester M20 9LJ UKSearch for more papers by this authorY. Stedman, Y. Stedman Senior Clinical Medical Officer South Manchester Health Authority Palatine Centre 63/65 Palatine Road Manchester M20 9LJ UKSearch for more papers by this author First published: March 1993 https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1471-0528.1993.tb15255.xRead the full textAboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditWechat No abstract is available for this article. Volume100, Issue3March 1993Pages 297-298 RelatedInformation

The law on doctors speaking out.

Gillian Cardy, a senior clinical medical officer with Bath District Health Authority who was suspended from her duties on 16 December for speaking to the press about planned cuts in family planning services, was reinstated on 8 January after a health authority hearing. At the subsequent meeting of the health authority on 13 January a motion was passed expressing regret at the recent distressing events concerning Dr Cardy and appre? ciation for her work. She had spoken out about plans to cut back the work of family planning clinics and close well women clinics, which, she said, would lead to more unwanted pregnancies. In January last year David Josephs, director of community medicine for South Bedfordshire Health Authority, was suspended for 10 weeks pending a disciplinary hearing after he spoke to the press, and on radio and television, despite instructions from his district general manager to stay silent. Dr Josephs said that stories in the press misquoted him on proposals for schoolchildren to be given condoms to protect them from AIDS and that his subsequent talking with the press was simply an attempt to put the record straight. Dr Josephs was reinstated with a formal written warning for managerial misconduct after a disciplinary hearing that also included a charge that he had leaked a confidential paper about measures to prevent AIDS to the director of social services of the local authority and chief environmental health officers, which he said was sent to professional colleagues for comment under a covering letter marked confidential. He sought leave to appeal against the written warning to the regional health authority on the grounds that there had been a gross miscarriage of justice, but this was refused.

Working with adults in the community: the role of the senior clinical medical officer in mental handicap

SUMMARYThe work of the senior clinical medical officer in mental handicap is described with reference to the All‐Wales Strategy and, in particular, to the principle of normalisation.

Training of senior clinical medical officers

Training of senior clinical medical officers

Training of senior clinical medical officers in child health. Joint Paediatric Committee of the Royal Colleges of Physicians and the British Paediatric Association.

Training of senior clinical medical officers in child health. Joint Paediatric Committee of the Royal Colleges of Physicians and the British Paediatric Association.

Clinical and senior clinical medical officers' training

Clinical and senior clinical medical officers' training

The community paediatrician in an integrated child health service.

A concept of Community Paediatrics has been described comprising clinical care to individual children including identification, diagnosis, and care of the handicapped child, expertise in preventive paediatric techniques, and the provision of investigation and advice in connexion with social and educational proboems. Its relationship to Community Medicine, General Practice, and Consulting Paediatrics has been discussed and a long-term training scheme is outlined. In the immediate future the deployment is envisaged of senior clinical Medical Officers now employed by Local Authorities.