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Treasury savages ‘appalling’ plans for a £350m relocation of body replacing PHE

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Treasury savages ‘appalling and incredibly expensive’ plans for a £350m Essex HQ to house new body replacing Public Health England The National Institute for Health Protection has replaced Public Health England   Matt Hancock has tabled plans to relocate the NIHP’s headquarters to Essex  Treasury insiders have criticised the plans, calling them ‘appalling and incredibly expensive’  … Read more

Government AXE PHE and replace it with new institute run by former jockey Baroness Dido Harding

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Government AXE PHE and replace it with new institute run by former jockey Baroness Dido Harding who oversaw disastrous Test and Trace scheme and TalkTalk when hackers stole 157,000 customers’ data Baroness Dido Harding, 52, headed NHS England’s Test and Trace scheme She is a former horse jockey and was chief executive of TalkTalk during … Read more

Care home outbreaks of Covid-like illnesses are highest for a month, PHE data shows

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Outbreaks of Covid-like illnesses in care homes are at their highest levels in a month, data from Public Health England show. In the week from July 13 to 19 there were 145 outbreaks of ‘acute respiratory infections’ in homes around the country, up from 128 the week before. An outbreak constitutes one or more people … Read more

Matt Hancock launches urgent review into the way PHE counts coronavirus deaths

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Health Secretary Matt Hancock has called for an urgent review into the way Public Health England counts coronavirus deaths.  A scientist has realised PHE is ‘over-exaggerating’ the daily coronavirus death toll because it counts people as victims if they die of any cause at any time after testing positive for Covid-19, a scientist has discovered.  People … Read more

More local lockdowns are ‘just DAYS away’ PHE sources claim

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Leicester-style localised lockdowns are ‘just days away’ from being imposed after dozens of towns and cities saw cases surge in the past week, public health officials revealed today. Bradford, Doncaster and Barnsley are said to be at the top of the Government’s list of potential Covid hotspots as the virus continues to plague Yorkshire. Parts … Read more

UK’s antibody testing fiasco exposed: PHE test misses up to a third of cases

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Antibody tests being used by Public Health England could be missing a third of positive results, a study has shown as Britain’s coronavirus testing fiasco deepens. A company given £1million of Government funding in March has produced a test that doesn’t yet meet ‘challenging’ official standards. And the Department of Health has already cancelled orders … Read more

UK’s antibody testing fiasco exposed: PHE test misses a third of cases

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Antibody tests being used by Public Health England could be missing a third of positive results, a study has shown as Britain’s coronavirus testing fiasco deepens. A company given £1million of Government funding in March has produced a test that doesn’t yet meet ‘challenging’ official standards. And the Department of Health has already cancelled orders … Read more

Is PHE facing the chop? Boris Johnson tells Tory MPs he plans post-pandemic review of ‘institutions’

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Is Public Health England facing the chop? Boris Johnson tells Tory MPs he plans review of ‘institutions’ amid fury over testing and warns he will not return to austerity or freeze public sector pay to cover the cost of coronavirus PM insisted his plans to revitalise left-behind parts of the UK would go ahead  He … Read more