Guidance Notes and Best Practice Guides
Defra: Local authorities, architects, planners and builders will be helped to produce high quality & locally appropriate waste facilities thanks to new expert guidance, produced by Defra in partnership with the Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment (CABE).
The guidance covers the various types of waste facilities, from small community and municipal sites (such as compost units on estates) to larger sites (such as Combined Heat and Power facilities) and outlines key design principles, the design process, best practice in design and how best to consult the public.
Press release ~ Designing waste facilities: a key guide to modern design in waste ~ Chartered Institute of Waste Management (CIWM) ~ Environmental Services Association ~ WRAP ~ National Association of Waste Disposal Officers
NICE: The National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) has published final guidance on the use of drugs to prevent osteoporotic fractures in postmenopausal women. The two pieces of guidance cover the use of drugs in postmenopausal women with osteoporosis who have not yet had a fracture (known as primary prevention) and on the use of drugs for the prevention of further fractures in postmenopausal women who have already had a fracture (known as secondary prevention).
Press release ~ Osteoporosis - primary prevention ~ Osteoporosis - secondary prevention including strontium ranelate
DH: The Department of Health has urged Primary Care Trusts (PCTs) to engage better with patients and the public in developing plans and making decisions about local health services. New guidance, published last week, is designed to help the public have more say in decisions made by their PCT, enabling them to shape local health services.
The strengthened 'Duty to Involve' guidance is also intended to make feedback on public consultations more transparent and accessible. This latest guidance 'Real Involvement' is being issued to help PCTs and other NHS organisations understand changes to the Duty and also to offer practical advice on how to put local people at the heart of service changes. The new Duty to Involve is also expected to be included in the NHS Constitution due to come into force next year.
