BREAKING: Matt Hancock to scrap 'failing' Public Health England
Matt Hancock is to merge the pandemic response work of Test and Trace and PHE into a new organisation
It comes after growing frustration over how the health body has handled the coronavirus crisis, including aHowever some have accused ministers of trying to ‘deflect responsibility’ of their own ‘shambolic management’. Delighted with the news was former cabinet member Sir Iain Duncan Smith, who said: ‘The one thing consistent about Public Health England is that almost everything it has touched has failed.’Public Health England came under fire after it was revealed it was counting deaths of people diagnosed with coronavirus who had died of any cause after 28 days, eventually resulting in a change of system which knocked off 5,377 from the UK death toll.
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