EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order establishes the Barts Health National Health Service Trust as a National Health Service trust.

The Order sets out the functions of the trust (article 3), the number of executive and non-executive directors of the trust (article 4), the operational date (the date on which the trust assumes all its functions) and the accounting date of the trust (article 5).

This Order also dissolves the Barts and The London National Health Service Trust, the Newham University Hospital National Health Service Trust and the Whipps Cross University Hospital National Health Service Trust.