Statutory Instruments
NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE, ENGLAND AND WALES
Made
13th March 1997
Coming into force
24th March 1997
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), 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:
1. This Order may be cited as the Worcester Royal Infirmary National Health Service Trust (Establishment) Amendment Order 1997 and shall come into force on 13th March 1997.
2. In article 3 of the Worcester Royal Infirmary National Health Service Trust (Establishment) Order 1993(5) (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-
(a)to provide and manage hospital accommodation and services at all or any of the following hospitals-
Worcester Royal Infirmary (Castle Street Branch), Castle Street, Worcester, Worcestershire WR1 3AS,
Worcester Royal Infirmary (Newtown Branch), Newtown Road, Worcester, Worcestershire WR5 1JG,
Worcester Royal Infirmary (Ronkswood Branch), Ronkswood Road, Newtown Road, Worcester, Worcestershire WR5 1HN,
and at any other premises which are for the time being associated with any of those hospitals; and
(b)to manage community health services provided from Worcester Royal Infirmary (Newtown Branch), Newtown Road, Worcester, Worcestershire WR5 1JG and to provide the associated premises.".
Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Health.
John Horam
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State,
Department of Health
13th March 1997
(This note is not part of the Order)
This Order amends the Order which established the Worcester Royal Infirmary National Health Service Trust to alter the purpose for which the trust has been established, and to amend its functions. (The trust has, in exercise of its existing functions, assumed responsibility for the ownership and management of hospital accommodation and services provided at Worcester Royal Infirmary (Newtown Branch), Newtown Road, Worcester, Worcestershire WR5 1JG, for the management of community health services provided from these premises and for the ownership of associated premises. These services and accommodation were previously managed by the former Worcester and District 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. It also alters the trust's functions to enable it to provide hospital and community health services from premises not previously provided or managed by a Health Authority or a Special Health Authority, and so that the trust is no longer required to own the premises from which it is to provide such services.
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").
See S.I. 1996/653, regulation 2(2).
See section 5(6) of the 1990 Act.
S.I. 1993/2582.