The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE)’s [1] role is to improve outcomes for people using the NHS and other public-health and social-care services. NICE achieves this by producing evidence-based guidance and advice for health, public-health and social-care practitioners; developing quality standards and performance metrics; and providing a range of informational services for commissioners, practitioners and managers across the spectrum of health and social care [2]. NICE has produced a series of Guidance documents on a variety of aspects of workplace health, summaries of which appear in the main report: 

·       ‘Workplace health promotion: how to encourage employees to be physically active’ (2008);

·       ‘Promoting mental wellbeing through productive and healthy working conditions: guidance for employers’ (2009);

·       ‘Workplace health promotion: how to help employees to stop smoking’ (2007); and

·       ‘Workplace health: management practices’ (2015).

Two more pieces of guidance are in development: ‘Workplace health – older employees’ (anticipated publication date: March 2016) and ‘Workplace health: support for employees with disabilities and long-term conditions’ (anticipated publication date: April 2017) [3].