This Order establishes the South Staffordshire Healthcare National Health Service Trust as an NHS trust provided for in section 5 of the National Health Service and Community Care Act 1990.

The order provides for the functions of the trust (article 3) and the number of executive and non-executive directors (article 4). It specifies the operational date (the date on which the trust assumes all its functions), the accounting date of the trust (article 5) and the trust’s limited functions before the operational date (article 6). It also specifies the trust’s liabilities which will be discharged by the South Staffordshire Health Authority if incurred between the establishment date and the operational date (article 7).

This Order is to be read in conjunction with the First Community Health, the Foundation and the Premier Health National Health Service Trusts Dissolution Order 2000.