The Cheshire and Wirral Partnership National Health Service Trust (Establishment) and the Wirral and West Cheshire Community National Health Service Trust (Dissolution) Order 2002

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order establishes the Cheshire and Wirral Partnership NHS Trust National Health Service Trust as an NHS trust, provided for in section 5 of the National Health Service and Community Care Act 1990 (article 2).

This Order also dissolves on 1st April 2002 (article 8):

• the Wirral and West Cheshire Community National Health Service Trust.

The new trust will provide certain services and community health services previously provided by the Wirral and West Cheshire Community National Health Service Trust which is dissolved by this Order and certain community health services previously provided by the Wirral and West Cheshire Community National Health Service Trust, the Cheshire Community Healthcare National Health Service Trust, the Mid Cheshire Hospitals National Health Service Trust, the East Cheshire National Health Service Trust and the Countess of Chester Hospital National Health Service Trust.

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

This Order does not impose a charge on businesses.