Explanatory note

This Order amends the Brighton Health Care National Health Service Trust (Establishment) Order 1992, which established the Brighton Health Care National Health Service Trust. The name of the trust was changed to the Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals National Health Service Trust by the Brighton Health Care National Health Service Trust (Change of Name) Order 2003.

Article 2 of the Order amends the nature and functions of the trust and removes the references to the establishments from which the trust carries out its functions. Article 3 of the Order increases the number of non-executive directors of the trust from 5 to 6 and provides that one of the non-executive directors must be appointed from the Brighton and Sussex Medical School, which is run jointly by the Universities of Brighton and Sussex.