The Gloucestershire Hospitals and the Gloucestershire Partnership National Health Service Trusts (Establishment) and the East Gloucestershire National Health Service Trust, the Gloucestershire Royal National Health Service Trust and the Severn National Health Service Trust (Dissolution) Order 2001

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order establishes the Gloucestershire Hospitals National Health Service Trust and the Gloucestershire Partnership National Health Service Trust as NHS trusts, provided for in section 5 of the National Health Service and Community Care Act 1990.

This Order also dissolves on 1st April 2002:

• the East Gloucestershire National Health Service Trust;

• the Gloucestershire Royal National Health Service Trust; and

• the Severn National Health Service Trust.

The Gloucestershire Hospitals National Health Service Trust will provide certain hospital accommodation and services previously provided by the East Gloucestershire National Health Service Trust and by the Gloucestershire Royal National Health Service Trust, which are dissolved by this Order.

The Gloucestershire Partnership National Health Service Trust will provide certain services (including those relating to mental health and learning disability) previously provided by the Severn National Health Service Trust and the East Gloucestershire National Health Service Trust which are dissolved by this Order.

The following Primary Care Trusts will provide certain services previously provided by the East Gloucestershire National Health Service Trust and by the Severn National Health Service Trust:

• the Cheltenham and Tewkesbury Primary Care Trust;

• the Cotswold and Vale Primary Care Trust;

• the West Gloucestershire Primary Care Trust.

The Order provides for the functions of the trusts (article 3) and the number of executive and non-executive directors (article 4). It specifies the operational date (the date on which the trusts assumes all their functions), and the accounting date of the trusts (article 5). It also specifies the trusts' liabilities which will be discharged by the Gloucestershire Health Authority if incurred between the establishment date and the operational date (article 7).

This Order does not impose a charge on businesses.