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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 24/02/2014 17:29, Mary Hawking
wrote:<br>
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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>
<br>
Nicholas<br>
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