Originally Posted by orbitmic

The Telegraph is suggesting that Public Health England (PHE) is about to be dismantled amidst continuous failings.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics...ealth-england/

The article suggests that it will be replaced by a new entity as early as the beginning of September (though I'd expect that the sooner the implementation, the more the replacement will likely look exactly like the original and may be a mere cosmetic change).

The main relevance here is that PHE is in charge of verifying/enforcing quarantine for people in England. I personally do not think that huge changes are to be expected from that point of view unless the new structure gets significantly larger budget and staffing, but there is at least a theoretical possibility that this may change the nature of controls which have been fairly "easy going" to date. It is also not entirely clear which of the many failings that one can think of (statistical mess up, limited enforcement, etc) or other reasons which may have nothing to do with failings (ie blaming PHE for failings which are really due to political leaders instead) are the basis for the decision, but obviously, if enforcement was listed (even if it is not the real reason), this could potentially signal a desire to toughen controls.

We'll need to wait a bit longer to know what exactly will be a potential impact on the quarantine if any at all, but there may be some.