The Oxford Radcliffe Hospitals National Health Service Trust (Change of Name) (Establishment) Amendment Order 2011

EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order amends the Churchill John Radcliffe National Health Service Trust (Establishment) Order 1993 (the Establishment Order), which established the Churchill John Radcliffe National Health Service Trust. The name of the trust was changed to the Oxford Radcliffe Hospital National Health Service Trust by the Churchill John Radcliffe National Health Service Trust (Change of Name) Order 1994 and subsequently changed to the Oxford Radcliffe Hospitals National Health Service Trust by the Oxford Radcliffe Hospital National Health Service Trust (Change of Name) Order 1998.

Article 3 changes the name of the trust from the Oxford Radcliffe Hospitals National Health Service Trust to the Oxford University Hospitals National Health Service Trust and makes consequential amendments to the Establishment Order.

Article 4 sets out the nature and functions of the trust, which are to provide hospital accommodation and services and community health services for the purposes of the health service.

Article 5 specifies the trust’s accounting date. It removes reference to the trust’s operational date as the trust has assumed all its functions.

Article 6 revokes articles 6, 7 and 8 of the Establishment Order as they relate to the period before the operational date and are of no ongoing relevance (article 8 specifies a sum for the purposes of a provision of the National Health Service and Community Care Act 1990 which has been repealed).