Health
Public Health England ‘to be scrapped’ over ‘sluggish’ response to coronavirus – Birmingham Live
A new Institute for Health Protection will reportedly take over from next month and has been designed to deal specifically with pandemics such as Covid-19
Public Health England is to be scrapped after criticisms of its ‘sluggish’ response to coronavirus in the UK, it’s been reported today.
A new body called the Institute for Health Protection will instead deal with responding to pandemics.
The Covid-19 work of PHE is to be merged with NHS Test and Trace to form the new organisation, according to The Sunday Telegraph.
Other aspects of PHE’s operations – such as tackling obesity – could be handed over to councils and family doctors, the paper sai…
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