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Appendix A: examples of public letters and statements from UK CMOs

Updated 10 January 2023

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This is not an exhaustive list. It outlines some examples of public statements and letters to the professions from the UK CMOs as a group during the COVID-19 pandemic.

In addition, there were:

  • statements from the UK CMOs on updates to alert levels which are available online
  • communications from individual CMOs and DCMOs
  • press briefings from UK CMOs, the GCSA and the Medical Director of the NHS[footnote 1]

Examples of joint letters from the UK CMOs (along with others) to the medical and public health profession

1. 11 March 2020: .

2. 3 April 2020: .

3. 1 May 2020: .

4. 6 May 2020: .

5. 11 November 2020: .

6. 4 December 2020: .

7. 31 December 2020: letter to the profession on COVID-19 vaccination programmes dosing schedules.

Examples of some key statements and public advice to ministers from the joint UK CMOs

8. 23 August 2020: statement from the UK Chief Medical Officers on schools and childcare reopening.

9. 11 December 2020: UK Chief Medical Officers鈥� statement on the self-isolation period.

10. 30 December 2020: statement from the UK Chief Medical Officers on the prioritisation of first doses of COVID-19 vaccines.

11. 13 September 2021: letter from the UK Chief Medical Officers to the UK Health Ministers on COVID-19 vaccination of 12 to 15 year olds.

  1. See, for example, 19 June 2020: update from the UK Chief Medical Officers on the UK alert level听鈫�

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