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Source :: Occupational Health. Aug2008, Vol. 60 Issue 8, p5-5. 1/4p. 1 Color Photograph.
Publication Year :: 2008
Abstract: This section offers health-related news briefs in Great Britain. Work and pensions secretary James Purnell has announced the Welfare Reform Green Paper, which will scrap incapacity benefit and income support by 2013. Helen Kirk has been appointed new chair of the Royal College of Nursing's OH Managers Forum. The Chartered Institute of Environmental Health has called on the government to tackle what it has said is a growing public health threat posed by Lyme Disease, transmitted by ticks.