The Rotherham Priority Health Services National Health Service Trust (Establishment) Amendment Order 2001

Statutory Instruments

2001 No. 1910

NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE, ENGLAND

The Rotherham Priority Health Services National Health Service Trust (Establishment) Amendment Order 2001

Made

24th April 2001

Coming into force

4th May 2001

The Secretary of State for Health, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by section 126(3) of the National Health Service Act 1977(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), hereby makes the following Order:

Citation, commencement and interpretation

1.—(1) This Order may be cited as the Rotherham Priority Health Services National Health Service Trust (Establishment) Amendment Order 2001 and shall come into force on 4th May 2001.

(2) In this Order—

“the Order” means the Rotherham Priority Health Services National Health Service Trust (Establishment) Order 1992(4);

“the trust” means the National Health Service trust established by the Order.

Amendment of NHS trust Establishment Order

2.—(1) In article 1 of the Order, in paragraph (2), after the definition of the Act, there shall be inserted—

““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 he has a duty to provide under section 5(1) or (1A) of that Act(5);”

(2) For article 3 of the Order (nature and 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 shall be to provide goods and services, namely hospital accommodation and services, and community health services, for the purposes of the health service, at or from the trust’s Headquarters at Priority Health Services Headquarters, Doncaster Gate Hospital, Doncaster Gate, Rotherham S65 1DW,

and at or from any associated hospitals, establishments and facilities.”

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Health

Yvette Cooper

Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Public Health,

Department of Health

24th April 2001

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order amends the Rotherham Priority Health Services National Health Service Trust (Establishment) Order 1992 (“the Establishment Order”) which established the National Health Service Trust.

Article 2 inserts a definition of community health services and substitutes a new article 3 of the Establishment Order (functions of the trust).

This Order is to be read in conjunction with the Nottinghamshire Healthcare National Health Service Trust (Establishment) Order 2000(6).

(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), 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, and by the Health Act 1999 (c. 8) (“the 1999 Act”) section 13; paragraph 3 of Schedule 2 was amended by the 1999 Act section 13(7); paragraph 6 of Schedule 2 was amended by the 1999 Act, Schedule 4 paragraph 83(4).

(3)

See S.I. 1996/653.

(4)

S.I. 1992/2482, as amended by S.I. 1998/1172.

(5)

Section 5(1) was amended by the Health and Medicines Act 1988 (c. 49) (“the 1988 Act”), section 25 and Schedule 3: section 5(1A) and (1B) was inserted by the 1988 Act, section 10(1): Schedule 1 was amended by the 1988 Act, Schedule 2, paragraph 7, and the Education Act 1996 (c. 56). Schedule 37, paragraph 46.

(6)

S.I. 2000/2908.