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Nature and functions of the trust
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.
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