The City Hospitals Sunderland NHS Foundation Trust and the South Tyneside NHS Foundation Trust (Dissolution and Transfer of Property and Liabilities) Order 2019

Statutory Instruments

2019 No. 690

National Health Service, England

The City Hospitals Sunderland NHS Foundation Trust and the South Tyneside NHS Foundation Trust (Dissolution and Transfer of Property and Liabilities) Order 2019

Made

25th March 2019

Coming into force

1st April 2019

Monitor makes the following order in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 57(2) and 64(5)(b) of the National Health Service Act 2006(1).

Monitor makes this Order having granted(2) the application made by the City Hospitals Sunderland NHS Foundation Trust and the South Tyneside NHS Foundation Trust under section 56(1) of the National Health Service Act 2006(3) for the dissolution of the trusts and the establishment of a new NHS foundation trust known as the South Tyneside and Sunderland NHS Foundation Trust.

(1)

2006 c. 41; section 57(2) was amended by section 172(2) of the Health and Social Care Act 2012 (c.7) (“the 2012 Act”); see section 275(1) for the definition of “the regulator”.

(2)

Monitor has a duty under section 56(4) of the National Health Service Act 2006 (“the 2006 Act”) (as substituted by section 168(5) of the 2012 Act) to grant an application to merge made by two trusts if it is satisfied that such steps as are necessary to prepare for the dissolution of the trusts and the establishment of the proposed new trust have been taken.

(3)

Section 56(1) was amended by section 168(1) of the 2012 Act.