LONDON (UK) – Britain’s Health Secretary Matt Hancock is set to declare that Public Health England (PHE) will be replaced by a new body. This move will be taken and will be specifically designed to safeguard the country against a pandemic by early next month, as per the reports by The Telegraph newspaper.
A collaboration of the response work of PHE for the pandemic with the National Health Service (NHS) Test and Trace into a new body will be called the National Institute for Health Protection, it said.
The move is planned to blend the scientific excellence of PHE and scale of the NHS Test and Trace operation, so that the country can be well equipped to stop a second wave of coronavirus this autumn, according to the Telegraph.
A senior minister told, “The National Institute for Health Protection’s goal will be simple: to ensure that Britain is one of the best equipped countries in the world to fight the pandemic.”
The new institute will have the Robert Koch Institute, Germany’s public health agency, as its model. Its response to the pandemic has been noteworthy, according to the newspaper.
PHE has received flak for the way it dealt with the COVID-19 crisis.
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