Guidance Notes and Best Practice Guides
NICE: In draft guidance, published last week, the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) provisionally recommends golimumab (Simponi) as an option for treating rheumatoid arthritis in specific circumstances where previous treatments haven't worked.
CIPD: A combination of individual & organisational resilience is needed in today’s tough economic environment if employees & the organisations they work for are to compete & prosper. This is the key message from a new guide, Developing Resilience, published jointly by the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD), Business in the Community (BITC) and the Institution of Occupational Safety and Health (IOSH).
The guide has been developed in recognition that both private & public sector organisations are continuing to operate in challenging environments following the financial crisis of 2008, with pressure to reduce & manage costs or restructure to improve competiveness & efficiency. The guide, which is based on a literature review of the evidence, sets out the interventions that support individual and organisational resilience.
The guide has been developed in recognition that both private & public sector organisations are continuing to operate in challenging environments following the financial crisis of 2008, with pressure to reduce & manage costs or restructure to improve competiveness & efficiency. The guide, which is based on a literature review of the evidence, sets out the interventions that support individual and organisational resilience.
FSA: The Food Standards Agency has launched a new factsheet to help caterers understand when to label food ‘gluten free’ when the rules change in 2012. It has been published to coincide with National Coeliac Awareness Week.
Newswire – TUC: The TUC has published new guidance for people at work to coincide with International Day Against Homophobia. The report - LGBT Equality at Work - covers changes in the law for LGBT people, workplace issues & training, recognising diversity, bullying & harassment, and the public sector equality duty.
International Day Against Homophobia is held on 17 May each year, and the TUC is urging union members and the general public to use this day to remember LGBT people who have been killed around the world simply because of their sexuality. Homosexuality is still illegal in 77 countries around the world, and in 7 countries women, men & children are punished for their sexuality with death sentences.
