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<p>NHS Improvement has brought together two distinct legal entities: Monitor, a non-departmental
public body and the NHS Trust Development Authority, a special health authority, under
a single leadership and operating model. It is a combination of the continuing statutory
functions and legal powers vested in these organisations.</p><p> </p><p>They will
continue to maintain their current legal underpinnings as two separate bodies, although
they will function as a single organisation to manage NHS trusts and foundation trusts
more effectively in the interests of patients and taxpayers.</p><p> </p><p>NHS Improvement
will be accountable directly to Parliament, the Secretary of State and the Department’s
Principal Accounting Officer for discharge of Monitor’s statutory and regulatory functions
and to the Secretary of State and Principal Accounting Officer for the specific functions
of the Trust Development Authority.</p>
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