IN BRIEF.

This section offers news briefs on issues related to occupational health in Great Britain. Pharmacists are to be given a much greater role in helping people with relatively minor medical conditions under the proposals in a Department of Health White Paper. One study has suggested that female veterinarians run twice the risk of miscarriage as a result of exposure to anaesthetic gases and pesticides. National Health Service workers are still reporting high levels of violence and abuse, according to the Healthcare Commission.