The West London Mental Health National Health Service Trust (Establishment) (Amendment) Order 2018

EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order amends the West London Mental Health National Health Service Trust (Establishment) Order 2000, which established the West London Mental Health National Health Service Trust (“the trust”).

Article 2 changes the name of the trust to the West London National Health Service Trust.

Article 3 removes provisions which are no longer relevant, amends the functions of the trust and updates legislative references.

Article 4 sets out the nature and functions of the trust as being to provide hospital accommodation and services and community health services and where approved for that purpose to provide high security psychiatric services. It removes reference to the National Health Service and Community Care Act 1990 (which has been repealed) and inserts a reference to section 4 of the National Health Service Act 2006. Article 4 also requires one of the non-executive directors of the trust to be appointed from the Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine.

Article 5 omits the definition and specification of the trust’s “operational date” as it ceases to be relevant.

Article 6 revokes articles 6 and 7 of the West London Mental Health National Health Service Trust (Establishment) Order 2000 as they relate to the period before the operational date and are no longer relevant by reason of the amendment made by article 5.

Article 7 removes definitions that cease to be relevant.

A full impact assessment has not been produced for this instrument as it has no effect on private sector or civil society organisations, and no significant effect on the public sector.