Health Services and Public Health Act 1968

5 Power of the Minister to designate certain hospitals in England and Wales as university hospitals

(1) If the Minister is satisfied that a hospital vested in him or a group of hospitals so vested provides, or is to provide, for a university facilities for undergraduate or post-graduate clinical teaching, he may, after consultation with the university, by order designate the hospital or group as a university hospital.

(2) An order made under the foregoing subsection in relation to a hospital or group of hospitals may provide that Part II of Schedule 3 to the 1946 Act (constitution of Hospital Management Committees) shall have effect, in relation to the Committee appointed to exercise functions with respect to the management and control of the hospital or group, subject to such modifications as may be specified in the order; but no provision shall be made by virtue of this subsection except after consultation by the Minister with the university with which the hospital or group is associated.

(3) Where the Minister makes an order under subsection (1) above in relation to a hospital or group of hospitals—

(a) it shall be the duty of the Regional Hospital Board for the area in which the hospital or group is situated to provide for the university with which the hospital or group is associated such facilities as appear to the Minister to be required for clinical teaching and research, and that duty shall, subject to and in accordance with regulations made by the Minister and such directions as may be given by the Minister or the Board, be exercised by the Hospital Management Committee for the hospital or group ; and

(b) section 14(2) of the 1946 Act (which authorises the making of provision by regulations with respect to the appointment of medical and dental officers to the staff of hospitals and, in particular, for the constitution of advisory appointments committees consisting, in the case of a hospital other than a teaching hospital, of persons nominated by the Regional Hospital Board and the Hospital Management Committee of the hospital affected, respectively) shall, in the case of the hospital or the hospitals of the group, as the case may be, have effect as if, for the words "nominated by the Regional Hospital Board and the Hospital Management Committee of the hospital affected, respectively", there were substituted the words " nominated respectively by the Regional Hospital Board, the Hospital Management Committee and the university with which the hospital is associated ".

(4) This section does not apply to Scotland.