2.13 A key risk in this area was the decision of the two NHS Trusts to enter the Campus scheme as separate, rather than merged, organisations. This prevented the scheme having a single management chain capable of acting quickly and decisively on the areas within its control and assessing risks on a consistent basis. The Royal Brompton and Harefield NHS Trust Board had formally identified a Trust merger as an unacceptable option and a condition whose breach would remove its support for the Campus scheme. The concern was that a corporate merger, undertaken for mainly project reasons, might make the delivery of the campus easier, but that the resulting merged hospital would so change the nature of the services it was able to deliver that a primary purpose of improved specialist services would have been jeopardised. The Department believed a merger was desirable but did not propose one at the start of the scheme as it believed such a requirement would stop the scheme.