The Rotherham Priority Health Services National Health Service Trust (Establishment) Amendment Order 2001

Amendment of NHS trust Establishment Order

2.—(1) In article 1 of the Order, in paragraph (2), after the definition of the Act, there shall be inserted—

““community health services” means any services which the Secretary of State may provide under section 3(1)(d) or (e) of, or Schedule 1, to the National Health Service Act 1977 and any service which he has a duty to provide under section 5(1) or (1A) of that Act(1);”

(2) For article 3 of the Order (nature and functions of the trust) 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) of the Act.

(2) The trust’s functions shall be to provide goods and services, namely hospital accommodation and services, and community health services, for the purposes of the health service, at or from the trust’s Headquarters at Priority Health Services Headquarters, Doncaster Gate Hospital, Doncaster Gate, Rotherham S65 1DW,

and at or from any associated hospitals, establishments and facilities.”

(1)

Section 5(1) was amended by the Health and Medicines Act 1988 (c. 49) (“the 1988 Act”), section 25 and Schedule 3: section 5(1A) and (1B) was inserted by the 1988 Act, section 10(1): Schedule 1 was amended by the 1988 Act, Schedule 2, paragraph 7, and the Education Act 1996 (c. 56). Schedule 37, paragraph 46.