Statutory Instruments

1998 No. 2486

NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE, ENGLAND AND WALES

The Bromley Hospitals National Health Service Trust (Establishment) Amendment (No. 2) Order 1998

Made

5th October 1998

Coming into force

19th October 1998

The Secretary of State for Health, in exercise of powers conferred 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), hereby makes the following Order:-�

Citation and commencement

1. This Order may be cited as the Bromley Hospitals National Health Service Trust (Establishment) Amendment (No. 2) Order 1998 and shall come into force on 19th October 1998.

Amendment of Establishment Order

2. For article 3 of the Bromley Hospitals National Health Service Trust (Establishment) Order 1992(4) there shall be substituted the following article:-�

"Nature and functions of the trust

3.-(1) The trust is established for the purposes specified in section 5(1)(b) of the Act.

(2) 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 provide and manage pursuant to section 5(1)(b) of the Act any or all of the following-�

(i)Beckenham Hospital, Croydon Road, Beckenham, Kent BR3 3QL;

(ii)Bromley Hospital, Cromwell Avenue, Bromley, Kent BR2 9AJ;

(iii)Farnborough Hospital, Farnborough Common, Orpington, Kent BR6 8ND;

(iv)Orpington Hospital, Sevenoaks Road, Orpington, Kent BR6 9JU; and

(v)an acute general hospital at Farnborough Common, Orpington, Kent; and

(b)to provide and manage pursuant to section 5(1)(b) of the Act any other hospitals, establishments or facilities in the area of Bromley Health Authority associated with the reprovision in whole or in part of any of the hospitals, establishments and facilities listed in paragraphs (a)(i) to (v) above; and

(c)to provide and manage hospital accommodation and services at any or all of the hospitals, establishments or facilities referred to in paragraphs (a) and (b) above."

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Health.

Alan Milburn

Minister of State,

Department of Health

5th October 1998

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order amends the Order ("the Establishment Order") which established the Bromley Hospitals 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 certain premises in the area of Bromley Health Authority.

(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), by paragraph 57 of Schedule 1 to the Health Authorities Act 1995 (c. 17) ("the 1995 Act") and by section 41(10) and paragraph 27 of Schedule 2 to the National Health Service (Primary Care) Act 1997 (c. 46).

(2)

1990 c. 19; section 5 was amended by paragraph 69 of Schedule 1 to the 1995 Act.

(3)

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

(4)

S.I. 1992/2535, as amended by S.I. 1998/1171.