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    <div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 24/02/2014 17:29, Mary Hawking
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        <p class="MsoNormal"><font color="blue" face="Arial" size="3"><span
              style="font-size:
              12.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:blue">HSCIC was established
              under the Health
              & Social Care Act on 1.4.13: it included the previous
              NHS Information
              Centre – with the addition of a lot of CfH staff and
              functions.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"><font color="blue" face="Arial" size="3"><span
              style="font-size:
              12.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:blue">I can’t remember what
              happened in
              2006: surely the NHSIA (NHS Information Authority) had
              been abolished before
              then?<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"><font color="blue" face="Arial" size="3"><span
              style="font-size:
              12.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:blue">Does every
              reorganisation of the NHS
              remove all responsibility for actions performed by the
              previous organisations?<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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    Not at all.  All these bodies, unless established as statutory
    corporations like the old-style nationalised industries, are just
    name-badged parts of the seamless legal entity consisting of the
    state, which remains legally responsible for all their acts and
    omissions, past, present and future.<br>
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    Nicholas<br>
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