Government Scrap Public Health England in Middle of Pandemic - Guardian Article Summary

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Ministers criticised over plan to scrap Public Health England - Guardian

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Prof Sir Simon Wessely, the president of the Royal Society of Medicine and a former adviser to the government, said:

“PHE employs some of the best, brightest and most hardworking clinicians and experts we have. There are simply not enough of them, which can partly be explained by the steady reduction in funding over the last seven years.

“Perhaps we do need a more joined-up structure, but we should not scapegoat PHE for the failures in the system in which they are but one cog.”

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