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The Public Health Wales National Health Service Trust (Establishment) Order 2009

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Nature and functions of the trustE+W

3.—(1) The trust is established for the purpose specified in section 18(1) of the Act.

(2) The trust’s functions are:

(a)to provide to or in relation to the health service in Wales and manage a range of public health, health protection, healthcare improvement, health advisory, child protection and microbiological laboratory services and services relating to the surveillance, prevention and control of communicable diseases;

(b)to develop and maintain arrangements for making information about matters related to the protection and improvement of health in Wales available to the public in Wales; to undertake and commission research into such matters and to contribute to the provision and development of training in such matters;

(c)to undertake the systematic collection, analysis and dissemination of information about the health of the people of Wales in particular including cancer incidence, mortality and survival; and prevalence of congenital anomalies; and

(d)to provide, manage, monitor, evaluate and conduct research into screening of health conditions and screening of health related matters.

Commencement Information

I1Art. 3 in force at 1.8.2009, see art. 1(1)

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