Health
Johnson government scraps Public Health England, accelerating break-up of National Health Service – WSWS
The main “crime” of PHE for the ruling elite was that it was part of a “bloated” NHS still not sufficiently responsive to the expertise and “flexibility” of the private sector.
By
Robert Stevens
20 August 2020
The Conservative government has announced the scrapping of Public Health England (PHE) and its replacement with a new body, the National Institute for Health Protection (NIHP).
NIHP will bring together several organisations, PHE, NHS Test and Trace, and the Joint Biosecurity Centre, as the first step towards becoming a single organisation.
PHE, established by the Cameron led-Tory government in 2013, is the national public health body and executive agency o…
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