No nursing employment where major personality disorder

Guidance on occupational health is to be issued shortly which will cover all these recommendations. Together with the English National Board's new guidelines, this guidance will establish better procedures for selection of student nurses for training, the selection of staff to work on children's wards and the follow up of staff who have a history of excessive absence through sickness.

As set out in Recommendation 1, this recommendation has been superseded, including by legislative changes, particularly in this context the Equality Act 2010, the Data Protection Act 2018 and the UK General Data Protection Regulation.

The NHS Terms and Conditions of Service Handbook (as revised February 2024) requires that employee health and wellbeing is monitored and reviewed on a regular basis (35.47). This handbook is published on the NHS Employers website. It is amended whenever new agreements are reached in the NHS Staff Council.

In November 1994, the Secretary of State for Health said that guidance on occupational health was to be issued shortly to cover this recommendation. The Secretary of State said that, together with the English National Board’s new guidelines, this guidance would establish better procedures for selection of student nurses for training, the selection of staff to work on children’s wards and the follow up of staff with a history of excessive absence through sickness.