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The Health Protection Agency (HPA) was a non-departmental public body in England. [1] It was set up by the UK government in 2003 to protect the public from threats to their health from infectious diseases and environmental hazards. [2] The HPA's role was to provide an integrated approach to protecting public health in the UK.
The UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) is a government agency in the United Kingdom, responsible since April 2021 for England-wide public health protection and infectious disease capability and replacing Public Health England. It is an executive agency of the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC).
It took over public health activity from the department and from the regional strategic health authorities (which were abolished), and all activities of the Health Protection Agency, the National Treatment Agency for Substance Misuse, the Public Health Observatories, the cancer registries, the National Cancer Intelligence Network, and the UK ...
An announcement by Hancock on 18 August established the National Institute for Health Protection by combining NHS Test and Trace with parts of Public Health England. [113] [114] In March 2021, the new organisation was renamed the UK Health Security Agency, and a formal start date of 1 April was indicated. [115]
The epidemiologist Thomas Waite, formerly a senior leader at Public Health England, took part in the creation of the JBC. [8] In October 2020 he was described as its director of health protection, [9] and was its director of health analysis until he took up a Deputy Chief Medical Officer post in July 2021. [8]
The Health Protection (Coronavirus, Restrictions) (England) (No. 4) Regulations 2020 (SI 2020/1200) is an English statutory instrument made on 3 November 2020 by the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, Matt Hancock, in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Sir Paul Anthony Cosford KCB (20 May 1963 – 5 April 2021) was a British emeritus medical director at Public Health England (PHE), the UK's public health agency, later replaced by the UK Health Security Agency. He had executive roles from 2010 at PHE's predecessor, the Health Protection Agency.
The National Poisons Information Service is an information service commissioned originally by Public Health England, and currently by the UK Health Security Agency as its successor agency, on behalf of the UK health departments. Poisoning accounts for 1% of NHS admissions.