Although they gave a polite response, saying that the proposal by Professor Sir Liam Donaldson, the chief medical officer, would be studied, the word in Whitehall was that it would not happen.
The chief medical officer for GE’s HIT division foresees innovation such as centralised image-sharing archives to allow remote “teleradiology”.
As a visiting district medical officer in northern Mozambique in the early 1980s, he received a note from a remote clinic about women and children infected by an unknown paralytic disease.
"We say, 'dogs have owners, cats have staff,'" said Dr. Richard E. Goldstein, chief medical officer at the Animal medical Center in New York.
The country's chief medical officer said EU-produced vegetables would be seized across Russia.