Guidance Notes and Best Practice Guides
HSE: The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has produced the web tool to help employers to consider relevant hazards in their office and think about how they control them to keep staff safe.
The new online risk assessment will help cut back the time it takes to weigh up the hazards in offices to just 20 minutes. It works by prompting employers to answer a series of questions about their workplace and then generates a unique risk assessment with actions required.
HSE already provides example risk assessments for 34 workplaces, including charity shops, estate agents & hairdressers, which help businesses get to grips with the sort of risks they will need to manage.
The new online risk assessment will help cut back the time it takes to weigh up the hazards in offices to just 20 minutes. It works by prompting employers to answer a series of questions about their workplace and then generates a unique risk assessment with actions required.
HSE already provides example risk assessments for 34 workplaces, including charity shops, estate agents & hairdressers, which help businesses get to grips with the sort of risks they will need to manage.
OFT: The OFT has recently produced draft guidance for businesses about the types of land agreements that might fall foul of competition law. Until now, land agreements between businesses benefited from special treatment under UK competition law. However from 6 April 2011 land agreements that prevent, restrict or distort competition will be void & unenforceable.
Companies involved in such agreements can also face fines of up to 10% of their annual worldwide turnover. The guidance aims to help businesses respond to this change in the law. It provides a practical framework and hypothetical examples of how typical agreements may be assessed.
HSE: Following the recent revisions to the UK resuscitation guidelines, HSE are now informing all HSE approved training providers involved in the deliver of first aid at work, emergency first aid at work, offshore first aid or offshore medic training the timetable by which they should be compliant with the changes to UK Resuscitation protocols.
NICE: The National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence has launched a database of NICE guidance recommendations covering the referral of patients from primary care to secondary care. The NICE ‘referral advice' recommendations database covers referral advice for patients with the range of conditions NICE has published guidance on such as suspected cancer, lower back pain and psoriasis.
NICE: Children & young people in care need better support if they are to reach their full potential & enjoy the same opportunities in life as their peers, according to new guidance published by the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) and Social Care Institute for Excellence (SCIE).
Over 60,000 children & young people are under the care of local authorities in England at any one time. Generally they do worse than their peers in terms of their physical & mental health and also their education. Few leave school with GCSEs and only 1% of looked-after children go to university, compared with 50% of all young people.
Press release ~ NICE/SCIE guidance to promote the quality of life for looked-after children ~ Figures released by the DfE ~ The Social Care Institute for Excellence (SCIE) ~ National Care Leavers' Week 2010 'Keep Dreaming' (24 October - 30 October 2010)
DH: A new series of resources to support GP Consortia to design & commission services for patients was announced by Health Secretary Andrew Lansley at the National Association for Primary Care Annual Conference.
The commissioning packs will provide GPs with a set of tools & templates to use when designing & buying services for their patients. The first of these support packs is for cardiac rehabilitation services and aims to support GP commissioners to design services that are suited to local needs and cost effective.
The commissioning packs will provide GPs with a set of tools & templates to use when designing & buying services for their patients. The first of these support packs is for cardiac rehabilitation services and aims to support GP commissioners to design services that are suited to local needs and cost effective.
Press release ~ Cardiac Rehabilitation commissioning pack ~ BHF leaflet for patients ~ Equity and excellence: Liberating the NHS
NICE: NICE has published final draft guidance recommending the wider use of clopidogrel for the prevention of occlusive vascular events (ischaemic stroke , transient ischaemic attack TIA or heart attack) in people who have previously had an ischaemic stroke, or who have been diagnosed with a condition called peripheral arterial disease (PAD).
The draft guidance also applies to people who have cardiovascular disease in more than one vascular site (multivascular disease), which puts them at high risk of subsequent occlusive vascular events.
NICE: In draft guidance published last week NICE recommends prucalopride (Resolor, Movetis) as an option for the treatment of chronic constipation in women, in whom laxatives have failed to provide adequate relief.
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