The Hammersmith Hospitals National Health Service Trust (Establishment) Order 1994

Statutory Instruments

1994 No. 853

NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE, ENGLAND AND WALES

The Hammersmith Hospitals National Health Service Trust (Establishment) Order 1994

Made

21st March 1994

Coming into force

31st March 1994

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:

Citation, commencement and interpretation

1.—(1) This Order may be cited as The Hammersmith Hospitals National Health Service Trust (Establishment) Order 1994 and shall come into force on 31st March 1994.

(2) In this Order unless the context otherwise requires—

“the Act” means the National Health Service and Community Care Act 1990;

“establishment date” means 31st March 1994;

“operational date” has the meaning assigned to it in paragraph 3(1)(e) of Schedule 2 to the Act;

“the trust” means The Hammersmith Hospitals National Health Service Trust established by article 2 of this Order.

Establishment of the trust

2.  There is hereby established an NHS trust which shall be called The Hammersmith Hospitals National Health Service Trust.

Nature and functions of the 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 to own and manage hospital accommodation and services provided at Hammersmith Hospital, Du Cane Road, London W12 0HS, Acton Hospital, Gunnersbury Lane, London W3 8EG, Queen Charlotte’s and Chelsea Hospital, Goldhawk Road, London W6 0XG, and Charing Cross Hospital, Fulham Palace Road, London W6 8RF (including the management of teaching and research facilities).

Directors of the trust

4.—(1) The trust shall have, in addition to the chairman, 5 non-executive directors and 5 executive directors.

(2) Since the trust is to be regarded as having a significant teaching commitment within the meaning of paragraph 3(1)(d) of Schedule 2 to the Act, one of the non-executive directors shall be appointed from the University of London.

Operational date and accounting date of the trust

5.—(1) The operational date of the trust shall be 1st April 1994.

(2) The accounting date of the trust shall be 31st March.

Limited functions before operational date

6.  Between its establishment date and its operational date the trust shall have the functions—

(a) of entering into NHS contracts;

(b) of entering into other contracts, including contracts of employment; and

(c) of doing such other things as are reasonably necessary to enable it to begin to operate satisfactorily with effect from its operational date.

Assistance by health authorities before operational date

7.—(1) The North West Thames Regional Health Authority and the Hammersmith and Queen Charlotte’s Special Health Authority, in accordance with such directions, if any, as the Secretary of State may give under section 17 of the National Health Service Act 1977(2), shall—

(a) until the operational date, make such staff and facilities available to the trust as are required to enable the trust to carry out its limited functions pending the transfer or appointment of staff to or by the trust and the transfer of facilities to the trust;

(b) make available such premises as are required to enable the trust to carry out its limited functions pending the transfer of those premises to the trust;

(c) discharge the liabilities of the trust incurred between the establishment date and the operational date that are of a description specified in paragraph (2) of this article; and

(d) make the scheme under section 6 of the Act for the transfer of staff to the trust.

(2) The liabilities referred to in paragraph (1)(c) of this article are—

(a) liability for the remuneration and travelling or other allowances of the chairman and non-executive directors of the trust;

(b) liability for the travelling or other allowances of the members of committees and sub-committees of the trust who are not also directors of the trust;

(c) liability for the remuneration of persons employed by the trust; and

(d) any other liability which may reasonably be incurred by the trust for the purpose of enabling it to begin to operate satisfactorily with effect from its operational date.

Restriction on disposal of assets

8.  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.

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Health

Tom Sackville

Parliamentary Under Secretary of State,

Department of Health

21st March 1994

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order establishes The Hammersmith Hospitals 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 both before (article 6) and after (article 3) its operational date (the date on which it assumes all its functions). It specifies the operational date and the accounting date of the trust (article 5) and makes provision for assistance to the trust by health authorities before its operational date (article 7). It specifies the value of assets in excess of which the Secretary of State is to consider the disposal of the asset (article 8).

(1)

1990 c. 19; paragraph 1 of Schedule 2 is cited for the definition of “an order”.

(2)

1977 c. 49; section 17 was substituted by the Health and Social Security Act 1984 (c. 48), Schedule 3, paragraph 2, and amended by the National Health Service and Community Care Act 1990 (c. 19), sections 3(4) and 12(2).