Public Health England (PHE) was an executive agency of the Department of Health and Social Care in England which began operating on 1 April 2013 to protect and improve health and wellbeing and reduce health inequalities. Its formation came as a result of the reorganisation of the National Health Service (NHS) in England outlined in the Health and Social Care Act 2012. It took on the role of the Health Protection Agency,the National Treatment Agency for Substance Misuse and a number of other health bodies. It was an executive agency of the Department of Health and Social Care,and a distinct delivery organisation with operational autonomy.
Catherine Jane CalderwoodFRCOG FRCPE is a Scottish consultant obstetrician and gynaecologist,who has served as the National Clinical Director for Sustainable Delivery at the Golden Jubilee University National Hospital since 2021. She previously served as the Chief Medical Officer for Scotland from 2015 to 2020,having advised the Scottish Government's initial response to the COVID-19 pandemic in Scotland.
Sir Christopher John MacRae Whitty is a British epidemiologist,serving as Chief Medical Officer for England and Chief Medical Adviser to the UK Government since 2019.
The COVID-19 pandemic in Scotland is part of the COVID-19 pandemic of coronavirus disease-2019,caused by the virus SARS-CoV-2. The first case of COVID-19 was confirmed in Scotland on 1 March 2020. Community transmission was first reported on 11 March 2020,and the first confirmed death was on 13 March 2020.
Operation Rescript was the code name for the British military operation to help tackle the COVID-19 pandemic in the United Kingdom and its Crown Dependencies between 2020 and 2022. It was described as the UK's "biggest ever homeland military operation in peacetime" by the Ministry of Defence (MOD),involving up to 23,000 personnel within a specialist task force,named the COVID Support Force (CSF). The support was given at the request of the UK government,its devolved administrations and civil authorities through the Military aid to the civil authorities (MACA) mechanism.
The Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (SAGE) is a British Government body that advises central government in emergencies. It is usually chaired by the United Kingdom's Chief Scientific Adviser. Specialists from academia and industry,along with experts from within government,make up the participation,which will vary depending on the emergency. SAGE gained public prominence for its role in the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic in the United Kingdom.
Sir Jonathan Stafford Nguyen Van-Tam is a British physician specialising in influenza,including its epidemiology,transmission,vaccinology,antiviral drugs and pandemic preparedness.
In response to the COVID-19 pandemic in the United Kingdom,the UK Government introduced various public health and economic measures to mitigate its impact. Devolution meant that the four nations' administrative responses to the pandemic differed;the Scottish Government,the Welsh Government,and the Northern Ireland Executive produced different policies to those that apply in England. Numerous laws were enacted or introduced throughout the crisis.
The following is a timeline of the COVID-19 pandemic in the United Kingdom from January 2020 to June 2020.
NHS COVID-19 was a voluntary contact tracing app for monitoring the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic in England and Wales,in use from 24 September 2020 until 27 April 2023. It was available for Android and iOS smartphones,and could be used by anyone aged 16 or over.
NHS Test and Trace was a government-funded service in England,established in 2020 to track and help prevent the spread of COVID-19. The programme is part of the UK Health Security Agency;the service and the agency are headed by Jenny Harries.
The following is a timeline of the COVID-19 pandemic in England from January 2020 to June 2020. There are significant differences in the legislation and the reporting between the countries of the UK:England,Scotland,Northern Ireland,and Wales.
The UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) is a government agency in the United Kingdom,responsible since April 2021 for England-wide public health protection and infectious disease capability and replacing Public Health England. It is an executive agency of the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC).
Operation Moonshot was a UK government programme to introduce same-day mass testing for COVID-19 in England as a way of enabling large gatherings of people to take place in that country while maintaining control over the virus. According to the British Medical Journal,the programme aimed to deliver 10 million tests per day by 2021.
The Vaccine Taskforce in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland was set up in April 2020 by the Second Johnson ministry,in collaboration with Chief Scientific Advisor Patrick Vallance and Chief Medical Officer Professor Chris Whitty,in order to facilitate the path towards the introduction of a COVID-19 vaccine in the UK and its global distribution. The taskforce coordinated the research efforts of government with industry,academics and funding agencies in order to expedite vaccine development and deployment.
The United Kingdom's response to the COVID-19 pandemic consists of various measures by the healthcare community,the British and devolved governments,the military and the research sector.
This article outlines the history of the COVID-19 pandemic in the United Kingdom. Though later reporting indicated that there may have been some cases dating from late 2019,COVID-19 was confirmed to be spreading in the UK by the end of January 2020. The country was initially relatively slow implementing restrictions but a legally enforced stay-at-home order had been introduced by late March. Restrictions were steadily eased across the UK in late spring and early summer that year.
The following is a timeline of the COVID-19 pandemic in England during 2022. There are significant differences in the legislation and the reporting between the countries of the UK:England,Scotland,Northern Ireland,and Wales.
The following is a timeline of the COVID-19 pandemic in the United Kingdom from July 2022 to December 2022.
The following is a timeline of the COVID-19 pandemic in the United Kingdom in 2023.
