Citation, commencement and interpretation

1.—(1) This Order may be cited as the Nottingham University Hospitals National Health Service Trust (Establishment) and the Nottingham City Hospital National Health Service Trust and the Queen’s Medical Centre, Nottingham, University Hospital National Health Service Trust (Dissolution) Order 2006 and shall come into force on 1^st April 2006.

(2) In this Order—

“the Act” means the National Health Service and Community Care Act 1990;

“community health services” means any services which the Secretary of State may provide under section 3(1)(d) or (e) of, or Schedule 1 to, the National Health Service Act 1977 and any service which she has a duty to provide under section 5(1) of that Act(6);

“dissolution date” means the date this Order comes into force;

“operational date” has the meaning assigned to it in paragraph 3(1)(e) of Schedule 2 to the Act; and

“the trust” means the Nottingham University Hospitals National Health Service Trust established by article 2 of this Order.

Establishment and name of the trust

2.  There is established a National Health Service trust which shall be called the Nottingham University Hospitals National Health Service Trust.

Nature and functions of the trust

3.—(1) The trust is established for the purposes specified in section 5(1) of the Act.

(2) The trust’s functions shall be to provide goods and services, namely hospital accommodation and services, and community health services, for the purposes of the health service.

Directors of the trust

4.—(1) The trust shall have, in addition to the chairman, 5 executive directors and 5 non-executive directors.

(2) Since the trust is to be regarded as having a significant teaching commitment within the meaning of paragraph 3(1)(d) of Schedule 2 to the Act one of the non-executive directors shall be appointed from the University of Nottingham.

Operational date and accounting date of the trust

5.—(1) The operational date of the trust shall be 1^st April 2006.

(2) The accounting date of the trust shall be 31^st March.

Dissolution of NHS trusts and revocation of orders

6.  On the dissolution date—

(a)the Nottingham City Hospital National Health Service Trust, which was established by the Nottingham City Hospital National Health Service Trust (Establishment) Order 1991(7); and

(b)the Queen’s Medical Centre, Nottingham, University Hospital National Health Service Trust, which was established by the Queen’s Medical Centre, Nottingham, University Hospital National Health Service Trust (Establishment) Order 1992(8),

are dissolved, and accordingly their Establishment Orders and the Queen’s Medical Centre, Nottingham, University Hospital National Health Service Trust (Establishment) Amendment Order 1998(9) are revoked.

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order establishes the Nottingham University Hospitals National Health Service Trust as a National Health Service trust under the terms set out in section 5 of the National Health Service and Community Care Act 1990.

The Order sets out the functions of the trust (article 3), the number of executive and non-executive directors of the trust and the requirement that one of the non-executive directors be appointed from the University of Nottingham (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 Nottingham City Hospital National Health Service Trust and the Queen’s Medical Centre, Nottingham, University Hospital National Health Service Trust and revokes their Establishment Orders and the Establishment Amendment Order relating to the latter NHS Trust.