Perhaps if you bother reading my comments about the gradual demise of The Health protection Agency in this and other threads, you may answer your own question.

With regard to England, Public Health England is the recipient of the public health functions of the old PCTs. The fragmentation at this time is unfortunate as it is moving to local government, whereas the observatory function remains with NHS England.

Here's the clincher, prat.

The individual reports for the period 2012/13 still await verified commissioning data such as HRG coding in order to plan 2014/15 budgets.

If you look hard enough, you might even see live links to Dept of Health functions that stopped being updated a few years ago. I am not expressing a view here, I am not putting an idea forward. I am saying what is, and how it is. Lies and spin don't change how the mess The NHS is in through the government 's reforms isn't understood by me or anyone else fully. But I reckon we know a little more about our world than an armchair google trawler.

Oh, and stop quoting foreign statistics and applying them to here. You can't compare a system that is universal with systems that are fragmented and based on access.

The picture for Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales is less fragmented, but smaller demographic. They are getting buggered around less.



Worm. There is no hope for you. I will ask all the gay people to be careful when in Scotland though, to make sure you don't catch anything off their debased perverse lifestyle eh?

Epidemic. Infectious disease that is widespread in a community at a particular time. Not even chlamydia gets that accolade. Don't compare the healthcare use of the word with newspaper and far right / religious website use of the word.

If you were intelligent and wanted to sensationalise, you could say that in the '80 s it was pandemic in The West, and remains pandemic in certain parts of the world. It is also argued that anything is potentially pandemic due to international travel.....

Here's a WHO statistic for you. Prevalence of HIV is largely inversely proportional to acceptance of gay lifestyle.

Interesting.... You take the maths around that with a pinch of salt as it is not strictly known if it is a fact or not, but the spread certainly increases in areas where ignorance and blame culture is rife.