{"id":150951,"date":"2020-08-18T22:20:13","date_gmt":"2020-08-18T22:20:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bnreport.com\/uk-scraps-public-health-agency\/"},"modified":"2020-08-18T22:20:13","modified_gmt":"2020-08-18T22:20:13","slug":"uk-scraps-public-health-agency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bnreport.com\/en\/uk-scraps-public-health-agency\/","title":{"rendered":"UK scraps public health agency"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LONDON \u2014 The U.K. is replacing Public Health England with a new body focused on protecting the country from external health threats, Health Secretary Matt Hancock confirmed Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>The body, called the National Institute for Health Protection, is launching immediately and will merge the work of PHE, the NHS Test and Trace program and the Joint Biosecurity Centre. Dido Harding, current head of the NHS Test and Trace program and former chief executive of TalkTalk, will lead the new body on an interim basis. The institute will report to Hancock and will support the countrys chief medical officers.<\/p>\n<p>In what appeared to be a bid to deflect accusations that the government is placing the blame for the countrys handling of the pandemic on PHE, Hancock extolled the talents of public health experts in the country during his speech at the Policy Exchange think tank. He said they had \u201cdone exceptional work\u201d and the changes announced today were \u201cdesigned entirely to strengthen the response.\u201d The new organization will focus on biological weapons, pandemics and infectious diseases.<\/p>\n<p>Since news of the new organization was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/report-uk-to-replace-public-health-england-with-pandemic-response-unit\/\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">reported by the Sunday Telegraph<\/a>, questions have been raised about what would happen to PHEs health improvement functions, such as its work on obesity. Today, Hancock said the government would \u201cconsult widely\u201d on how to embed health improvement across the health service and within local authorities.<\/p>\n<p>Nigel Edwards, chief executive of the Nuffield Trust said: \u201cThe government ri<a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/uk-scraps-public-health-agency\/?utm_source=RSS_Feed&amp;utm_medium=RSS&amp;utm_campaign=RSS_Syndication\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More \u2013 Source<\/a><br \/>\n[contf]<br \/>\n[contfnew]<br \/>\n        <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/snap.md\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/politico-logo.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<h5><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">politico<\/a><\/h5>\n<p>[contfnewc]<br \/>\n[contfnewc]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LONDON \u2014 The U.K. is replacing Public Healt..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":150952,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-150951","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - 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