Statutory Instruments

1998 No. 1170

NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE, ENGLAND AND WALES

The Coventry Healthcare National Health Service Trust (Establishment) Amendment Order 1998

Made

5th May 1998

Coming into force

18th May 1998

The Secretary of State for Health, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by section 126(3) of the National Health Service Act 1977(1) and section 5(1) of the National Health Service and Community Care Act 1990(2) and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, having completed the consultation prescribed under section 5(2) of that latter Act(3) and considering it appropriate that the functions of the trust should include functions in relation to the provision of services for one or more Health Authorities(4), hereby makes the following Order:-

Citation and commencement

1. This Order may be cited as the Coventry Healthcare National Health Service Trust (Establishment) Amendment Order 1998 and shall come into force on 18th May 1998.

Amendment of Establishment Order

2. For Article 3 of the Coventry Healthcare National Health Service Trust (Establishment) Order 1994(5) there shall be substituted the following Article:-

"Nature and functions of the trust

3. The trust's functions (which include functions which the Secretary of State considers appropriate in relation to the provision of services by the trust for one or more Health Authorities) shall be-

(a)to own and manage pursuant to section 5(1)(a) of the Act Parkside House, Quinton Road, Coventry CV1 2NJ, and associated hospitals, establishments or facilities, and there to provide hospital accommodation and services;

(b)to own and manage pursuant to section 5(1)(a) of the Act Gulson Hospital, Gulson Road, Coventry CV1 2HR, and associated premises and there to provide community health services; and

(c)to provide and manage pursuant to section 5(1)(b) of the Act:

(i)Coventry Mental Health Unit, Clifford Bridge Road, Walsgrave, Coventry CV2 2TE, and

(ii)121 Hollyfast Road, Coundon, Coventry CV6 2AE,

and there to provide hospital accommodation and services".

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Health

Alan Milburn

Minister of State,

Department of Health

5th May 1998

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order amends the Order ("the Establishment Order") which established the Coventry Healthcare National Health Service Trust.

The Establishment Order is amended to confer on the trust the purpose specified in section 5(1)(b) of the National Health Service and Community Care Act 1990 to provide and manage Coventry Mental Health Unit, Clifford Bridge Road, Walsgrave, Coventry CV2 2TE and 121 Hollyfast Road, Coundon, Coventry CV6 2AE.

(1)

1977 c. 49; section 126(3) was amended by section 65(2) of the National Health Service and Community Care Act 1990 (c. 19) and by paragraph 57 of Schedule 1 to the Health Authorities Act 1995 (c. 17) ("the 1995 Act").

(2)

1990 c. 19; section 5 was amended by paragraph 65 of Schedule 1 to the 1995 Act.

(3)

See S.I. 1996/653, regulation 2(2).

(4)

See section 5(6) of the 1990 Act.

(5)

S.I. 1994/170.