Health Protection Agency next for the axe

摘要

The Health Protection Agency is to be abolished as a statutory organisation following a Department of Health "review" which has pledged to cut and rein in several arms length bodies.rnHealth secretary Andrew Lansley announced the closure of the HPA, which works with DEFRA, the Environment Agency and Las on environmental health risk assessment issues such as contaminated land investigations and health guidance. Its functions will be transferred to the secretary of state "as part of the new public health service," the DoH said.