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Health Secretary Matt Hancock
BORIS JOHNSON’S government was accused today of “desperate blame-shifting” amid claims that it is planning to axe Public Health England (PHE) in the midst of the Covid-19 pandemic.
Ministers are reportedly seeking to merge PHE’s work with that of the NHS test and trace operation, which is mainly run by private contractors Serco and Sitel.
PHE is an executive agency of the Department of Health and Social Care and has been in operation since 2013 after its creation under former health secretary Jeremy Hunt.
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