EXCLUSIVE Sunday @Telegraph splash
Public Health England will be scrapped and replaced by a new body to protect country against a pandemic next month.
Matt Hancock to merge Covid-19 work of PHE with NHS Test and Trace to create National Institute for Health Protection. 1/

The new institute will bring together the science expertise at PHE with the scale of NHS Test and Trace's operation.
The model for is the Robert Koch Institute in Germany.
Dido Harding is tipped to run it, reporting to ministers and CMO Chris Whitty. More this week. 2/

A senior minister says the change is needed so country to prepare for possible second coronavirus spike: "The National Institute for Health Protection’s goal will be simple: to ensure that Britain is one of the best equipped countries in the world to fight the pandemic." 3/

The change will be "effective" within the next month but it will take until the spring formally to complete the organisational change of breaking up a large organisation. A source said: "It will be in place by September." 4/

Tomorrow's Sunday Telegraph splash:
Matt Hancock axes Public Health England https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2020/08/15/hancock-axes-failing-public-health-england/