Explanatory note

This Order establishes the Nottinghamshire Healthcare National Health Service Trust as an NHS trust provided for in section 5 of the National Health Service and Community Care Act 1990.

The Order provides for the functions of the trust (article 3) and the number of executive and non-executive directors (article 4). It specifies the operational date (the date on which the trust assumes all its functions), the accounting date of the trust (article 5) and the trust’s limited functions before the operational date (article 6). It also specifies the trust’s liabilities which will be discharged by the North Nottinghamshire Health Authority if incurred between the establishment date and the operational date (article 7).

Subject to approval under paragraph 10(2) Schedule 2 to the National Health Service and Community Care Act 1990, the new trust will have the function of providing services at Rampton Hospital as well as providing certain services currently provided by the Nottingham Healthcare, the Central Nottinghamshire Healthcare, the Bassetlaw Hospital and Community Services and the Rotherham Priority Health Services National Health Service Trusts.