The George Eliot Hospital National Health Service Trust (Establishment) Amendment Order 2009

This Order may be cited as the George Eliot Hospital National Health Service Trust (Establishment) Amendment Order 2009 and shall come into force on 1st July 2009.

In this Order—

• “the Establishment Order” means the George Eliot Hospital National Health Service Trust (Establishment) Order 1993^f1.

for the definition of “the Act” substitute—

• ““the Act” means the National Health Service Act 2006;”

after the definition of “the Act”, insert—

• ““community health services” means any services which the Secretary of State may provide under section 3(1)(d) or (e) of, or paragraph 2 or 7A^f1 of Schedule 1 to, the Act and any service which he has a duty to provide under paragraph 1 or 8 of that Schedule;”;

in the definition of “operational date”, for “paragraph 3(1)(e) of Schedule 2 to the Act” substitute “paragraph 5(5) of Schedule 4 to the Act”; and

after the definition of “operational date” insert—

• ““primary care services” means primary medical services, primary dental services, primary ophthalmic services and pharmaceutical services^f2;”.

in paragraph (1), for “5(1) of the Act” substitute “25(1) of the Act”; and

for paragraph (2) substitute—

“(2)

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