Public Health England (PHE), was established as an executive agency of the Department of Health on 1 April 2013 to protect and improve the nation’s health and wellbeing and reduce health inequalities.
PHE brings together a range of functions and responsibilities previously delivered through a number of other organisations, including all functions of the Health Protection Agency (HPA).
HPA was abolished with effect from 1 April 2013 and its functions in respect of regulated activities transferred to PHE. As an executive agency of the department, however, PHE is exempt from registration (by virtue of paragraph 8b of Schedule 2 to the Regulated Activities Regulations) so it does not appear in our directory of services on this website.
We have agreed with PHE that we will, on a non-statutory basis, inspect services formerly provided by HPA.
Latest report
We carried out an announced inspection of PHE on 17 and 24 February 2014. We inspected five standards:
- Respecting and involving people who use services
- Care and welfare of people who use services
- Requirements relating to workers
- Assessing and monitoring the quality of service provision
- Complaints
We found that all of these standards were being met. You can read more in the full report below.
Health Protection Agency
You can read more about the Health Protection Agency and our checks on the services it provided on its archived profile page on this website.