UKHSA Science Strategy: A vision for how science can secure health and prosperity
- The UKHSA have released a new strategy which sets out how they will harness the power of their science to secure health and prosperity over the next decade.
- The strategy highlights how UKHSA’s science can save more lives, secure major public health victories and contribute to the UK as a global science superpower.
- The science strategy is an important companion piece to UKHSA’s strategic plan which will be published later this year to provide more information on our organisational priorities.
UK and Japan strengthen science and tech ties in Tokyo
- UK and Japan today signed a renewed science and technology deal, building on decades of close cooperation.
- Deepening relationship on science and technology follows initial joint UK-Japan projects announced as part of International Science Partnerships Fund (ISPF) in December.
- Deal comes as part of Science Minister George Freeman’s work to cement science and tech cooperation between the world’s leading economies, at the G7 Science and Technology Ministers’ Meeting in Sendai.
UK to launch talks with Switzerland on new trade deal
- UK and Japan today signed a renewed science and technology deal, building on decades of close cooperation.
- Deepening relationship on science and technology follows initial joint UK-Japan projects announced as part of International Science Partnerships Fund (ISPF) in December.
- The current UK-Switzerland FTA is based on an EU-Swiss deal from more than 50 years ago – before the advent of the home computer or the internet.
Six new CDCs to deliver more than 500,000 lifesaving checks a year
- New community diagnostic centres (CDCs) to open in regions across the UK, adding to the 106 centres already up and running.
- Regions including the East of England, Midlands and the South East will benefit with all new centres open to patients before the end of the year – with the government investing £2.3 billion to deliver up to 160 across England by 2025.
- The CDC programme has delivered over 3.8 million additional tests, checks and scans since July 2021.
Genomics England CEO Chris Wigley to move on from role in late 2023
- Baroness Nicola Blackwood, Chair of the Board at Genomics England, has written a letter announcing his departure.
The end of the COVID-19 public health emergency: What’s next?
- This article, from McKinsey, examines what the future may hold for the global public health landscape following the end of COVID as a public health emergency.
Recently in the Chamber of the House of Commons…
Gary Sambrook MP (Birmingham, Northfield) (Con)
What steps is the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology taking to help the life sciences industry attract private investment?
The Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, Chloe Smith MP
The UK’s life sciences sector is key to creating highly skilled jobs across the UK and cementing the UK’s role as a science superpower, as my hon. Friend the Minister for Science, Research and Innovation, a doughty champion of life sciences, has just set out. We have a life sciences vision, which sets out our ambition to develop a globally competitive investment ecosystem in the UK, and we will bring forward further measures to support the sector in the coming weeks. A great example is the life sciences investment programme, a £200 million initiative that is expected to attract at least double that in private investment.
