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The Solent National Health Service Trust (Establishment) Order 2011

S.I. 2011/804 · Made 14 March 2011 · Extends to England and Wales

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National Health Service, England

Made 14th March 2011

Coming into force 1st April 2011

The Secretary of State for Health makes the following Order in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 25(1) and 272(7) and (8) of, and paragraph 5 of Schedule 4 to, the National Health Service Act 2006f1.

The Secretary of State for Health makes this Order following the completion of the consultation prescribed under section 25(3) of the National Health Service Act 2006f2.

Annotations to the whole text

Footnotes

f1

2006 c.41.

f2

See S.I. 2010/743.

Contents

  1. 1Citation, commencement and interpretation
  2. 2Establishment and name of the trust
  3. 3Nature and functions of the trust
  4. 4Directors of the trust
  5. 5Operational date and accounting date of the trust
  6. Signature
  7. Explanatory note

1Citation, commencement and interpretationI1

(1)

This Order may be cited as the Solent National Health Service Trust (Establishment) Order 2011 and shall come into force on 1st April 2011.

(2)

In this Order—

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

  • F1“community health services” means any services—

    1. (a)

      whose provision must be arranged by F2an integrated care board under F3section 3(1)(g) or (i) of the Act;

    2. (b)

      which are of a kind mentioned in F4section 3(1)(g) or (i) of the Act, but—

      1. (i)

        whose provision must be arranged by F5NHS England under regulations made under section 3B of the Actf1; or

      2. (ii)

        which may be provided by the Secretary of State or a local authority under section 2B of the Act;

    3. (c)

      which a local authority must provide under paragraph 1 of Schedule 1 to the Act;

    4. (d)

      which a local authority may provide under paragraph 2 or 7A of Schedule 1 to the Act; or

    5. (e)

      which the Secretary of State must provide under paragraph 8 of Schedule 1 to the Act;

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

  • “the trust” means the National Health Service trust established by article 2.

2Establishment and name of the trustI1

There is established a National Health Service trust which shall be called the Solent National Health Service Trust.

3Nature and functions of the trustI1

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.

4Directors of the trustI1

(1)

The trust shall have, in addition to the chairman, 5 executive directors and 5 non-executive directors.

(2)

If the Secretary of State suspends the chairman, or a non-executive director of the trust, the number of non-executive directors of the trust shall increase during the period of suspension by the number of persons so suspended.

5Operational date and accounting date of the trustI1

(1)

The operational date of the trust shall be 1st April 2011.

(2)

The accounting date of the trust shall be 31st March.

Signature

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Health.

Simon Burns

Minister of State,

Department of Health

14th March 2011

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order establishes a National Health Service trust called the Solent National Health Service Trust.

The Order sets out the functions of the trust (article 3), the number of executive and non-executive directors of the trust (article 4), the operational date (the date on which the trust assumes all its functions) and the accounting date of the trust (article 5).