sentences:  On 31 March 2013, NHS Connecting for Health ceased to exist, and some projects and responsibilities were taken over by Health and Social Care Information Centre.In August 2018, NHS launched a healthcare finance innovation initiative to identify solutions which could streamline financial operations.The programme was established in October 2002 following several Department of Health reports on "IT Strategies for the NHS", and on 1 April 2005 a new agency called NHS Connecting for Health (CfH) was formed to deliver the programme.