1996 No. 1001

NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE, ENGLAND AND WALES

The Norfolk and Norwich Health Care National Health Service Trust (Establishment) Amendment Order 1996

Made

Coming into force

The Secretary of State for Health, in exercise of powers conferred on him by section 126(3) of the National Health Service Act 19771 and section 5(1) of the National Health Service and Community Care Act 19902 and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, hereby makes the following Order:

Citation and commencement1

This Order may be cited as the Norfolk and Norwich Health Care National Health Service Trust (Establishment) Amendment Order 1996, and shall come into force on 30th April 1996.

Amendment of Establishment Order2

In Article 3 of the Norfolk and Norwich Health Care National Health Service Trust (Establishment) Order 19943 (functions of the trust)—

a

in paragraph (1) for “section 5(1)(a)” there shall be substituted “section 5(1)(b)”; and

b

for paragraph (2) there shall be substituted the following new paragraph:—

2

The trust’s functions shall be to provide and manage hospital accommodation and services at all or any of the following hospitals:—

a

Norfolk and Norwich Hospital, Brunswick Road, Norwich NR1 3SR;

b

West Norwich Hospital, Bowthorpe Road, Norwich NR2 3TU;

c

Cromer Hospital, Mill Road, Cromer NR27 0BQ; and

d

a general hospital at Colney Lane, Norwich,

and at any other premises which are for the time being associated with any of those hospitals.

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Health

John HoramParliamentary Under Secretary of State,Department of Health

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order amends the Order which established the Norfolk and Norwich Health Care National Health Service Trust to alter the purpose for which the trust has been established and to amend its functions. (The trust has assumed responsibility for the management of the Norfolk and Norwich Hospital, and associated hospitals, previously managed by the former Norwich Health Authority.)

This Order confers on the trust the purpose specified in section 5(1)(b) of the National Health Service and Community Care Act 1990, to provide and manage hospitals or other establishments or facilities. The functions of the trust are also amended so that it is no longer required to own the premises at which it provides hospital accommodation and services, and so that it may provide such accommodation and services from premises not previously managed by a health authority, and may cease to provide such accommodation and services from certain of its existing premises.