The North Staffordshire Combined Healthcare National Health Service Trust (Establishment) Amendment Order 1998

Statutory Instruments

1998 No. 2972

NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE, ENGLAND AND WALES

The North Staffordshire Combined Healthcare National Health Service Trust (Establishment) Amendment Order 1998

Made

1st December 1998

Coming into force

11th December 1998

The Secretary of State for Health, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by section 126(3) of the National Health Service Act1977(1) and section 5(1) of the National Health Service and Community Care Act 1990(2) and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, after completion of the consultation prescribed under section 5(2) of the latter Act(3), considering it appropriate that the functions of the trust should include functions in relation to the provision of services for one or more Health Authorities(4), hereby makes the following Order:

Citation and commencement

1.  This Order may be cited as the North Staffordshire Combined Healthcare National Health Service Trust (Establishment) Amendment Order 1998 and shall come into force on 11th December 1998.

Amendment of NHS trust Establishment Order

2.  For article 3 of the North Staffordshire Combined Healthcare National Health Service Trust (Establishment) Order 1992(5) (functions of the trust) there shall be substituted the following article–

“Nature and functions of the Trust

3.— (1) The trust is established for the purposes specified in section 5(1) 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 pursuant to section 5(1)(a) of the Act Bucknall Hospital, Eaves Lane, Bucknall, Stoke-on-Trent ST2 8LD and associated hospitals and premises and there to provide and manage hospital accommodation and services and there and from there to provide and manage community health services;

(b) to provide and manage pursuant to section 5(1)(b) of the Act, and at Hilton Road site, Stoke-on-Trent, and there to provide and manage hospital accommodation and services;

(c) to provide and manage pursuant to section 5(1)(b) of the Act the premises specified in the Schedule to this Order and there and from there to provide and manage community health services.”

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Health.

Alan Milburn

Minister of State,

Department of Health

1st December 1998

Article 2

SCHEDULE SCHEDULE TO BE ADDED TO THE NORTH STAFFORDSHIRE COMBINED HEALTHCARE NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE TRUST (ESTABLISHMENT) ORDER 1992

Article 3(2)(c)

“SCHEDULE PREMISES

Premises which the trust is to provide and manage pursuant to section 5(1)(b) of the Act, and from which it is to provide and manage community health services

(i) Kidsgrove Health Centre, Mount Road, Whitehill, Kidsgrove, Stoke-on-Trent, ST7 4AY

(ii) Stone Rehabilitation Centre, Stafford Road, Stone, Staffs, ST15

(iii) Clydesdale Resource Centre, 167 Queens Road, Penkhull, Staffs, ST4 7LF

(iv) Eleveden House, 330 Weston Road, Meir, Stoke-on-Trent, ST3 2EZ

(v) Eversley House, 103 Normacot Road, Longton, Stoke-on-Trent, ST3 4QG

(vi) Meadow View, Fulford Lane, Stallington, Staffs, ST11 9SR

(vii) Regent House, 15 Cocknage Road, Dresden, Stoke-on-Trent, ST3 4AP

(viii) Audley Health Centre, Church Street, Audley, Staffs, ST7 8EW

(ix) Martec, (Ashlands) Centre, 35 North Street, Newcastle, Staffs, ST5 1AZ

(x) Belgrave Medical Centre, 116 Belgrave Road, Dresden, Stoke-on-Trent, ST3 4LR

(xi) Furlong Road Medical Centre, Tunstall, Stoke-on-Trent, ST6 5UD

(xii) Land at Furlong Road, Tunstall, Stoke-on-Trent, ST6 5UD

(xiii) Leek Health Centre, Fountain Street, Leek, Staffs, ST13 6JR

(xiv) Moss Lane Clinic, Madeley, Staffs

(xv) Moorcroft Medical Centre, Bottleslow Street, Hanley, Stoke-on-Trent, ST1 3JN

(xvi) Moorland Medical Centre, Dyson House, Regent Street, Leek, Staffs, ST13 6LU

(xvii) Park Medical Centre, Ball Haye Road, Leek, Stafffs, ST13 6QR

(xviii) Silverdale Health Centre, Crown Street, Silverdale, Newcastle, Staffs, ST5 6PN

(xix) Wolstanton Medical Centre, Palmerston Street, Newcastle, Staffs, ST5 8BN

(xx) Joint Loan Store, Lower Bryan Street, Hanley, Stoke-on-Trent, ST4 5AT

(xxi) Cemetery Lodge, 62 Queens Road, Stoke-on-Trent, ST4 7LH.”

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order amends the Order (“the Establishment Order”) which established the North Staffordshire Combined Healthcare National Health Service Trust.

The Establishment Order is amended to confer 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 Hilton Road site, Stoke-on-Trent and there to provide hospital accommodation and services, and to provide and manage the premises listed in the Schedule to this Order and there and from there to provide and manage community health services.

(1)

1977 c. 49; section 126(3) was amended by section 65(2) of the National Health Service and Community Care Act 1990 (c. 19) (“the 1990 Act”) and by paragraph 57 of Schedule 1 to the Health Authorities Act 1995 (c. 17) (“the 1995 Act”) and by section 41(10) and paragraph 27 of Schedule 2 to the National Health Service (Primary Care) Act 1997 (c. 46).

(2)

1990 c. 19. Section 5 was amended by paragraph 69 of Schedule 1 to the 1995 Act.

(3)

See S.I. 1996/653, regulation 2(2).

(4)

See section 5(6) of the 1990 Act.

(5)

S.I. 1993/2635.