Citation and commencement

1. 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 Order

2. In Article 3 of the Norfolk and Norwich Health Care National Health Service Trust (Establishment) Order 1994(3) (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."

Explanatory Note

(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.