Statutory Instruments
NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE, ENGLAND AND WALES
Made
26th November 1998
Coming into force
7th December 1998
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, having completed the consultation prescribed under section 5(2) of that latter Act(3) and 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 Warwickshire Ambulance Service National Health Service Trust (Establishment) Amendment Order 1998 and shall come into force on 7th December 1998.
2. For article 3 of the Warwickshire Ambulance Service National Health Service Trust (Establishment) Order 1993(5) (nature and functions of the trust) there shall be substituted the following article:-“
3.-(1) The trust is established for the purposes specified in section 5(1) of the Act.
(2) The trust's functions shall be-“
(a)to own and manage pursuant to section 5(1)(a) of the Act:
(i)Nuneaton Ambulance Station, Newton Road, Nuneaton, Warwickshire, CV11 4HR
(ii)Dordon Ambulance Station, Watling Street, Dordon, Staffordshire, B78 1TE
(iii)Rugby Ambulance Station, Brownsover Lane, Rugby, Warwickshire, CV21 1HL and
(iv)Warwick Ambulance Station, Montague Road, Warwick, Warwickshire, CV34 5UV
and from there to provide and manage ambulance and associated transport services and such other services relating to the provision of care as can reasonably be carried out in conjunction therewith; and
(b)to provide and manage pursuant to section 5(1)(b) of the Act:
(i)Ambulance Service Headquarters, Dale Street, Leamington Spa, CV32 5HH,
(ii)Stratford Ambulance Station, Masons Road, Stratford, Warwickshire CV37 9NA, and
(iii)Ambulance Control Centre and Vehicle Compound, Queen Elizabeth Hospital, University Hospital Birmingham National Health Service Trust, Vincent Drive, Edgbaston, Birmingham, B15 2TH
and from there to provide and manage ambulance and associated transport services and such other services relating to the provision of care as can reasonably be carried out in conjunction therewith.".
Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Health
Alan Milburn
Department of Health
26th November 1998
(This note is not part of the Order)
This Order amends the Order ("the Establishment Order") which established the Warwickshire Ambulance Service National Health Service Trust.
The Establishment Order is amended to confer 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 Ambulance Service Headquarters, Dale Street, Leamington Spa, CV32 5HH, Stratford Ambulance Station, Masons Road, Stratford, Warwickshire CV37 9NA, and the Ambulance Control Centre and Vehicle Compound, Queen Elizabeth Hospital, University Hospital Birmingham National Health Service Trust, Vincent Drive, Edgbaston, Birmingham, B15 2TH and from there to provide ambulance, transport and other care 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), 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).
1990 c. 19; section 5 was amended by paragraph 69 of Schedule 1 to the 1995 Act.
See S.I. 1996/653, regulation 2(2).
See section 5(6) of the 1990 Act.
S.I. 1993/259.