The Nottingham University Hospitals National Health Service Trust (Establishment) and the Nottingham City Hospital National Health Service Trust and the Queen’s Medical Centre, Nottingham, University Hospital National Health Service Trust (Dissolution) (Amendment) Order 2019

Statutory Instruments

2019 No. 1016

National Health Service, England

The Nottingham University Hospitals National Health Service Trust (Establishment) and the Nottingham City Hospital National Health Service Trust and the Queen’s Medical Centre, Nottingham, University Hospital National Health Service Trust (Dissolution) (Amendment) Order 2019

Made

11th June 2019

Coming into force

24th June 2019

The Secretary of State makes the following Order in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 25(1) and 272(7)(a) and (8)(a) of, and paragraph 4 of Schedule 4 to, the National Health Service Act 2006(1).

In accordance with section 25(3) of that Act, the Secretary of State has completed the consultation required by regulation 2(2) of the National Health Service Trusts (Consultation on Establishment and Dissolution) Regulations 2010(2).

Citation, commencement and interpretation

1.—(1) This Order may be cited as The Nottingham University Hospitals National Health Service Trust (Establishment) and the Nottingham City Hospital National Health Service Trust and the Queen’s Medical Centre, Nottingham, University Hospital National Health Service Trust (Dissolution) (Amendment) Order 2019 and comes into force on 24th June 2019.

(2) In this Order, “the Establishment Order” means The Nottingham University Hospitals National Health Service Trust (Establishment) and the Nottingham City Hospital National Health Service Trust and the Queen’s Medical Centre, Nottingham, University Hospital National Health Service Trust (Dissolution) Order 2006(3).

Amendment of Article 4 of the Establishment Order

2.  For article 4(1) of the Establishment Order (directors of the trust), substitute—

“4.— (1) The trust must have, in addition to the chairman, 5 executive directors and 7 non-executive directors.”.

Signed by the authority of the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care

Stephen Hammond

Minister of State,

Department of Health and Social Care

11th June 2019

EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order amends The Nottingham University Hospitals National Health Service Trust (Establishment) and the Nottingham City Hospital National Health Service Trust and the Queen’s Medical Centre, Nottingham, University Hospital National Health Service Trust (Dissolution) Order 2006, which established the Nottingham University Hospitals National Health Service Trust (“the trust”).

Article 2 increases the number of non-executive directors that the trust must have from 5 to 7.

A full impact assessment has not been produced for this instrument as it has no effect on private sector or civil society organisations, and no significant effect on the public sector.

(1)

2006 c.41 (“the 2006 Act”). Section 179(2) of the Health and Social Care Act 2012 (c.7) provides for the repeal of section 25 of, and Schedule 4 to, the 2006 Act but this provision is not yet in force.

(2)

S.I. 2010/743, to which there are amendments not relevant to this Order. The prescribed consultation under regulation 2(2) of S.I. 2010/743 is, before making an order under section 25(1) of the 2006 Act in relation to an NHS trust, consultation by the Secretary of State with that NHS trust.

(3)

S.I. 2006/782, to which there are amendments not relevant to this Order.