Re: Someone is to blame
She is, despite Duncan Selbie still being notianlly head of PHE, PHE have been rolled into the new National Institute for Health Protection (NIHP) which She is Interim head of....
But still the blame has to land at the feet of Andrew Lansley and the Health and Social Care Act, that ripped the Public health boards apart and gave the responsibilities to local councils, without the funding, and deposited the central parts in PHE, so it was basically a controll centre for something that no-longer existed.
Maintaining a Public Health infrastructure is expensive, but when an epi or pan demic comes along it repays that in spades, but if you dont have one, it starts to look like a good line item to cut in a budget
Biting the hand that feeds IT
