UK Health Security Agency to launch on 1 April to ‘plan, prevent and respond’ to external threats to health

A new organisation is being set up with the aim of halting future pandemics. The UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) will launch on 1 April, the health secretary, Matt Hancock, announced.

He told a briefing hosted by the Local Government Association that the “UKHSA must plan, it must prevent and it must respond. UKHSA must be ready.”

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