Statutory Instruments
NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE, ENGLAND AND WALES
Made
22nd March 1993
Coming into force
1st April 1993
The Secretary of State for Health, in exercise of powers conferred on her by section 5(1) of, and paragraphs 1, 3, 4, 5 and 6(2)(d) of Schedule 2 to, the National Health Service and Community Care Act 1990(1) and of all other powers enabling her in that behalf, having directed the relevant Regional Health Authority, as defined in section 5(4) of that Act, to consult the persons or bodies referred to in section 5(2) of that Act and having received and considered the results of that consultation, hereby makes the following Order:
1.—(1) This Order may be cited as the Hinchingbrooke Health Care National Health Service Trust (Establishment) Order 1993 and shall come into force on 1st April 1993.
(2) In this Order unless the context otherwise requires—
“the Act” means the National Health Service and Community Care Act 1990;
“community health services” means any services which the Secretary of State may provide under section 3(1)(d) or (e) of, or Schedule 1 to, the National Health Service Act 1977 and any service which she has a duty to provide under section 5(1) or (1A) of that Act(2);
“operational date” has the meaning assigned to it in paragraph 3(1)(e) of Schedule 2 to the Act;
“the trust” means the Hinchingbrooke Health Care National Health Service Trust established by article 2 of this Order.
2. There is hereby established an NHS trust which shall be called the Hinchingbrooke Health Care National Health Service Trust.
3.—(1) The trust is established for the purpose specified in section 5(1)(a) of the Act.
(2) The trust’s functions (which include functions which the Secretary of State considers appropriate in relation to the provision of services by the trust for one or more health authorities) shall be—
(a)to own and manage hospital accommodation and services provided at Hinchingbrooke Hospital, Hinchingbrooke Park, Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire PE18 8NT;
(b)to manage community health services provided from Hinchingbrooke Hospital, Hinchingbrooke Park, Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire PE18 8NT and to own the associated premises.
4. The trust shall have, in addition to the chairman, 5 non-executive directors and 5 executive directors.
5.—(1) The operational date of the trust shall be 1st April 1993.
(2) The accounting date of the trust shall be 31st March.
6. The sum specified for the purposes of paragraph 6(2)(d) of Schedule 2 to the Act (maximum value of freely disposable assets) in relation to the trust shall be £1,000,000.
Virginia Bottomley
Secretary of State for Health
22nd March 1993
(This note is not part of the Order)
This Order establishes the Hinchingbrooke Health Care National Health Service Trust, an NHS trust provided for in section 5 of the National Health Service and Community Care Act 1990. It also provides for the functions of the trust after its operational date (the date on which it assumes all its functions) (article 3). It specifies the operational date and the accounting date of the trust (article 5). It specifies the value of assets in excess of which the Secretary of State is to consider the disposal of the asset (article 8).
1990 c. 19; paragraph 1 of Schedule 2 is cited for the definition of “an order”.
1977 c. 49; section 5(1) was amended by, and section 5(1A) and (1B) were inserted by, the Health and Medicines Act 1988 (c. 49), section 10(1); Schedule 1 was amended by the Education Act 1980 (c. 20), Schedule 1 and the Health and Medicines Act 1988 (c. 49), Schedule 2, paragraph 7.