The North Staffordshire Combined Healthcare National Health Service Trust (Establishment) Amendment Order 1998

Made: 1st December 1998

Coming into force: 11th 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 Act1977¹ and section 5(1) of the National Health Service and Community Care Act 1990² and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, after completion of the consultation prescribed under section 5(2) of the latter Act³, considering it appropriate that the functions of the trust should include functions in relation to the provision of services for one or more Health Authorities⁴, hereby makes the following Order:

Citation and commencement

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This Order may be cited as the North Staffordshire Combined Healthcare National Health Service Trust (Establishment) Amendment Order 1998 and shall come into force on 11th December 1998.

Amendment of NHS trust Establishment Order

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For article 3 of the North Staffordshire Combined Healthcare National Health Service Trust (Establishment) Order 1992⁵ (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 (which include functions which the Secretary of State considers appropriate in relation to the provision of services by the trust for one or more Health Authorities) shall be– (a) to own and manage pursuant to section 5(1)(a) of the Act Bucknall Hospital, Eaves Lane, Bucknall, Stoke-on-Trent ST2 8LD and associated hospitals and premises and there to provide and manage hospital accommodation and services and there and from there to provide and manage community health services; (b) to provide and manage pursuant to section 5(1)(b) of the Act, and at Hilton Road site, Stoke-on-Trent, and there to provide and manage hospital accommodation and services; (c) to provide and manage pursuant to section 5(1)(b) of the Act the premises specified in the Schedule to this Order and there and from there to provide and manage community health services.

SCHEDULE — SCHEDULE TO BE ADDED TO THE NORTH STAFFORDSHIRE COMBINED HEALTHCARE NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE TRUST (ESTABLISHMENT) ORDER 1992

Signed

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Health.

Alan Milburn — Minister of State, — Department of Health — 1st December 1998

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order amends the Order (“the Establishment Order”) which established the North Staffordshire Combined Healthcare 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 Hilton Road site, Stoke-on-Trent and there to provide hospital accommodation and services, and to provide and manage the premises listed in the Schedule to this Order and there and from there to provide and manage community health services.

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