UKHSA needs investment not dangerous cut backs

Prospect a has responded to news of cuts at the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA)

Garry Graham, deputy general secretary of Prospect, said:

“Making cuts to the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) just as we are coming out of the pandemic, is the wrong cut at the wrong time.

“Predecessor agencies had been subject to damaging spending cuts over the past decade, leaving them with too few staff and other resources when the pandemic hit.

“The UKHSA deals with a whole number of risks to health, not just Covid or another future pandemic: it needs investment not dangerous cut backs.”