THE Health Protection Agency, which has a facility at Porton Down, is to be axed under reforms, the government announced today.
The HPA is one of up to ten bodies that will go or be merged with other organisations.
Health Secretary Andrew Lansley said the aim was to save costs and cut bureaucracy in the NHS.
He stressed that essential work would be moved to other bodies.
There is no current estimate of job losses.
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