Talk:Public Health England

Public Health England

Someone described the PHE as a the watchdog over the government's Public Health Agency. Sounds like the fox guarding the chicken coup. Turns out criticism of their handling of the ecigarettes test results for safety sake was well founded criticism. In 2019 more and more cases of people being badly injured by these devices is growing. And tests show that the main blood vessels are negatively affected from 17% to 24% on day one of using ecigarettes. Kiddrock5678 (talk) 08:13, 26 August 2019 (UTC)

What are the other health regulation bodies in UK?

E.g. the MHRA But there are much more and the structure/ organizational interpendecies would be important. E.g. the relation and different tasks of the MHRA, but also critical judgements of the system, e.g. mhracorrupt.st ... and of course actually for any country. :-) ---Mocvd (talk) —Preceding undated comment added 18:23, 29 July 2020 (UTC)

Timeline

Article claims PHE was formed in 2013 but has criticism dating back to 2011 - how can this be true? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2A02:C7D:E0A3:2900:5D94:A0C7:6FF3:3D14 (talk) 12:48, 16 August 2020 (UTC)

I reworded the sentence about the Royal College of Psychiatrists. Per the source, they were commenting on plans to create PHE. Wire723 (talk) 10:15, 18 August 2020 (UTC)

Transfer to NIHP

The lead section reads, "Most of the functions of PHE have been transferred to Dido Harding at the NIHP; Michael Brodie was appointed as Interim CEO at PHE whilst the remaining functions of PHE are phased out." As I understand it, NIHP begins 1 Apr 2021, Selbie has gone immediately, Brodie is PHE interim chief executive and reports to Harding as interim exec chair of PHE. Bondegezou (talk) 15:44, 18 August 2020 (UTC)

2020–2021 reorganisation

The following section is too complex and one reading would come to a different conclusion about the reorganisation, if technically true. For instance, the role of the UKHSA and OHID in PHE's final months.

"A reorganisation of public health protection in England was announced by the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, Matt Hancock, in August 2020. PHE would be combined with NHS Test and Trace to form a National Institute for Health Protection, under a new leadership structure headed by Conservative peer Dido Harding as interim CEO. Michael Brodie, current CEO of the NHS Business Services Authority, was appointed as interim PHE CEO, replacing Duncan Selbie. In March 2021, it was announced that the new agency would instead be called the UK Health Security Agency, commencing on 1 April and led by Jenny Harries (formerly a regional director at PHE and Deputy Chief Medical Officer for England).

The new UKHSA would focus on infectious disease control, particularly the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. Options for PHE's other roles, such as preventing ill health and reducing health inequalities, were to be discussed, with the decision made in March 2021 that these functions would move to "new homes within the health system" including the creation of an Office for Health Protection within the Department for Health and Social Care. This was subsequently re-named the Office for Health Improvement and Disparities and launched 1 October 2021. A few PHE staff moved to NHS England/Improvement or to NHS Digital.

While it was originally announced that PHE would be wound up on 31 March 2021, the body continued to have a shadow existence until 1 October 2021, to support the transition and temporarily continue the non-UKHSA roles. The PHE name and employment contracts remained until 1 October."

--SW1APolitico (talk) 19:30, 3 October 2021 (UTC)