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Nice move, N.I.C.E.

Anna Kelsey-Sugg

The UK's National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) is moving in a positive direction, with new guidelines to help employees on long-term sickness absence return to work.

The National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) has released new guidelines to help employees on long-term sickness absence return to work. It is estimated that in Britain the annual cost of sickness absence is approaching £100 billion. NICE Public Health Excellence director Mike Kelly said the new guidelines aim to "help employers and employees work together to ensure that when someone is absent from work due t...

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Published 29 March, 2009 | Updated 31 March, 2009