Health Secretary will scrap PHE next month after poor handling of pandemic

Matt Hancock will scrap Public Health England next month after poor handling of pandemic

A senior minister said: “We want to bring together the science and the scale in one new body so we can do all we can to stop a second coronavirus spike this autumn.

A new chief executive – who will be announced soon – will report to both Mr Hancock and the government’s chief scientific officer Sir Patrick Vallance.Mr Hancock wants a high-flyer with experience in the health field and the private sector to run the new body. Mr Hancock, who has been working on the overhaul for three months, had to take control of the testing strategy from PHE in March to scale up the numbers quickly.

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