David Oliver: Renaming government agencies won’t improve population health
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Just how committed is the government to improving health of population through prevention policy? Merely renaming agencies certainly no meaningful solution. In August 2020 England’s secretary state for health, Matt Hancock, announced that Public Health England (PHE), an executive agency Department and Social Care, was be scrapped replaced by a new organisation, National Institute Protection, fully operational spring 2021.12 On 24 March this year body would launched as newly renamed UK Security Agency.3 Under direct ministerial control, its main purpose protect country from …
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: BMJ
سال: 2021
ISSN: ['0959-8138']
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.n1004