The UK government plans to cut the number of health-related agency bodies from 18 to between just eight and ten, as part of an exercise to streamline the organisations and deliver savings of over £180m (US$279 million) by 2014-151,2.
Its move follows the publication of a Department of Health review that proposes scrapping or merging several health-related arm's-length bodies (ALBs)...
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