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Dept of Health sees 150million savings from axing arms length bodies

The NHS Information Authority (NHS IA) will be dissolved on 1 April and certain functions transferred to the Health and Social Care Information Centre (HSCIC) and to the National Programme for IT (NPfIT). The National Programme for IT will become an Agency on 1 April.

The NHS Modernisation Agency and NHSU are due to be dissolved by 31 July 2005 and some of their functions taken on by the new NHS Institute for Learning, Skills and Innovation which is due to be set up by the same date.

Mr Reid was setting out the ALB budgets for 2005-2006.

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