Guidance Notes and Best Practice Guides
HSE: New regulations come into force recently requiring the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) to be notified of conventional tower cranes installed on construction sites. The new regulations:
* place the duty to notify the HSE on the employer
* require notification of the relevant information within 14 days of thorough examination of the crane
* require cranes already erected when the Regulations come into force to be registered within 28 days
* allow electronic notification via the HSE website
All details notified will be contained in a register that will be open to public scrutiny. Notifications will be subject to an administration fee of £20.
Press release ~ Construction tower cranes – guidance on complying with the regulations free leaflet INDG437
Third Sector (TS): Scientists at Birmingham Children's Hospital and the Universities of Nottingham and Southampton have developed new guidelines that should help doctors to diagnose brain tumours in children more quickly. At present, children may feel unwell for months before they are diagnosed with a brain tumour. This delay means they are more likely to develop life-threatening complications and experience vision loss and other neurological problems.
In their latest study, the team organised a workshop of 20 healthcare professionals and parents of children with brain tumours. Together they devised new statements describing the signs & symptoms of brain tumours, factors that could be used to tell the difference between brain tumours & other less serious conditions, and the process doctors should follow if they suspect a child has a brain tumour.
These statements were then tested by a panel of health specialists in a 'virtual' focus group - 156 took part, with 88 completing all 3 rounds. This resulted in final guidelines containing 76 recommendations on the signs & symptoms of childhood brain tumours, assessment of children with possible brain cancer, and whether and when to carry out central nervous system imaging.
Ofcom: If you’re heading off on your holidays over the next few months, make sure you take a few moments to watch our video on using mobile services abroad. It explains how you can avoid being stung with a sky-high holiday phone bill– particularly if you’re planning on using your phone to get online while you’re away.
There’s advice on ways you can surf the web overseas without running up a huge bill, as well as information on new rules which will come into force this summer, which mean that from July 2010 all mobile operators will have to introduce a cut-off mechanism once your mobile internet bill reaches 50 Euros – or around £40 a month – while you’re travelling in the European Union.
NICE: NICE has launched a new page on their website that will allow patients, carers & members of the public to search for the versions of guidance that are written for them. Until now, patients & the public have had to look through the individual pieces of NICE guidance in order to identify the relevant patient versions.
