NHS Test & Trace chief Dido Harding to head up agency replacing Public Health England
NHS Test and Trace boss Baroness Dido Harding is to head up the Government's new health agency, it's reported.
On Monday, the boss of the embattled organisation apologised to staff that news of the demise of the organisation was leaked. Other aspects of its operations, such as tackling obesity, could be handed over to councils and family doctors, the newspaper said. The note to staff, seen by the HSJ, states: "I am sorry beyond words at the way that decisions about our future have been briefed to the media before I have had the chance to explain them.
"However, no one remotely close to our work of the past eight years, and since January on the pandemic would agree with the headlines that this change reflects 'pandemic failure' on our part."No public body has done more to protect the health of the people than PHE nor has more reason to be proud of its contribution."
But critics said if ministers are unhappy with PHE's performance, they have only themselves to blame as it is directly under ministerial control.
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