The Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) is a department of His Majesty's Government responsible for government policy on health and adult social care matters in England,along with a few elements of the same matters which are not otherwise devolved to the Scottish Government,Welsh Government or Northern Ireland Executive. It oversees the English National Health Service (NHS). The department is led by the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care with three ministers of state and three parliamentary under-secretaries of state.
The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) is an executive agency of the Department of Health and Social Care in the United Kingdom which is responsible for ensuring that medicines and medical devices work and are acceptably safe.
David Gifford Leathes Prior,Baron Prior of Brampton is the former chairman of NHS England and chairman of University College Hospital. He served as Conservative Member of Parliament (MP) for North Norfolk from 1997 until the 2001 general election,when he lost his seat to Norman Lamb of the Liberal Democrats by 483 votes. In 2015,he was appointed as a life peer in the House of Lords.
The Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (Dstl) is an executive agency of the Ministry of Defence of the United Kingdom. Its stated purpose is "to maximise the impact of science and technology for the defence and security of the UK". The agency is headed by Paul Hollinshead as its chief executive,with the board being chaired by Adrian Belton. Ministerial responsibility lies with the Minister for Defence Procurement.
Paul Myners,Baron Myners,was a British businessman and politician. In October 2008 he was elevated to the House of Lords as a life peer and was appointed City Minister in the Labour Government of Gordon Brown,serving until May 2010. As City Minister Myners was responsible for overseeing the financial services sector during the global financial crisis and its aftermath,including leading the controversial 2008 United Kingdom bank rescue package. Myners sat in the House of Lords as a Labour peer until 2014,resigning to become a non-affiliated member before joining the crossbench group in 2015.
Sir Steven George West is a British podiatrist,the vice-chancellor,president and chief executive officer of the University of the West of England since 2008. He holds a number of national and international advisory appointments in higher education,healthcare policy and regional government.
Randox is a Northern Irish health and toxicology company in the in vitro diagnostics industry headquartered in Crumlin,County Antrim,Northern Ireland,owned by Peter FitzGerald. The company develops diagnostic solutions for hospitals,clinical,research and molecular labs,food testing,forensic toxicology,veterinary labs and life sciences. It develops,manufactures and markets reagents and equipment for laboratory medicine,with a distribution network of 145 countries. Randox is the biggest polymerase chain reaction testing provider in the United Kingdom and Republic of Ireland. Randox received three contracts by the Department of Health and Social Care without having to compete for a tender.
Diana Mary "Dido" Harding,Baroness Harding of Winscombe is a British businesswoman and life peer who served as chair of NHS Improvement from 2017 to 2021 and as interim chief executive of the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) and head of NHS Test and Trace from 2020 to 2021.
Brett P. Giroir is an American pediatrician. He was formerly the U.S. assistant secretary for health,a four-star admiral in the U.S. Public Health Service Commissioned Corps and an acting Food and Drug Administration commissioner.
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.
Simon Laurence Stevens,Baron Stevens of Birmingham is Chair of Cancer Research UK and an independent member of the House of Lords. He served as the eighth Chief Executive of NHS England from 2014 to 2021.
Dame Jennifer Margaret "Jenny" Harries is a British public health physician who has been the chief executive of the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) and head of NHS Test and Trace since May 2021. She was previously a regional director at Public Health England,and then Deputy Chief Medical Officer for England from June 2019 until her UKHSA appointment in 2021.
Andrew John Griffith is a British politician and former senior media executive who,since 2019,has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Arundel and South Downs.
NHS Test and Trace is 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 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.
Denis Francis Kinane is a Scottish immunologist,cell biologist,infection,immunity and genomics specialist. He is the author of more than 250 papers with an H-index of 82,and editor of Nature and Springer journals. Kinane has held professorial appointments in pathology,periodontology,immunology,infection and immunity at medical and dental schools in the UK,United States and Switzerland. He is a director of two large US and Chinese health companies and Scientific Director,CMO and founder of several smaller international companies.
Fiona Catherine McQueen is a Scottish nurse,who was Chief Nursing Officer for Scotland from 2015 to 2021.
As part of the British honours system,Special Honours are issued at the Monarch's pleasure at any given time. The Special Honours refer to the awards made within royal prerogative,operational honours,political honours and other honours awarded outside the New Years Honours and Birthday Honours.
