The Bromley Hospitals National Health Service Trust (Establishment) Amendment Order 1998

Statutory Instruments

1998 No. 1171

NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE, ENGLAND AND WALES

The Bromley Hospitals National Health Service Trust (Establishment) Amendment Order 1998

Made

5th May 1998

Coming into force

18th May 1998

The Secretary of State for Health, in exercise of powers conferred by section 126(3) of the National Health Service Act 1977(1) and section 5(1) of the National Health Service and Community Care Act 1990(2) and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, having completed the consultation prescribed under section 5(2) of that latter Act(3), hereby makes the following Order:—

Citation and commencement

1.  This Order may be cited as the Bromley Hospitals National Health Service Trust (Establishment) Amendment Order 1998 and shall come into force on 18th May 1998.

Amendment of Establishment Order

2.—(1) For Article 3 of the Bromley Hospitals National Health Service Trust (Establishment) Order 1992(4) there shall be substituted the following Article:—

“Nature and functions of the trust

3.   The trust’s functions (which include functions which the Secretary of State considers appropriate in relation to the provision of services by the trust for one or more Health Authorities) shall be—

(a) to own and manage pursuant to section 5(1)(a) of the Act the premises specified in Part I of the Schedule to this Order, and there to provide hospital accommodation and services;

(b) to provide and manage pursuant to section 5(1)(b) of the Act the premises specified in Part II of the Schedule to this Order, and there to provide hospital accommodation and services.”.

(2) At the end of that Order there shall be added the Schedule set out in the Schedule to this Order.

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Health

Alan Milburn

Minister of State,

Department of Health

5th May 1998

Article 2(2)

SCHEDULE SCHEDULE TO BE ADDED TO THE BROMLEY HOSPITALS NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE TRUST (ESTABLISHMENT) ORDER 1992

Article 3

“SCHEDULE PREMISES

PART I Premises which the trust is to own and manage pursuant to section 5(1)(a) of the Act, and at which it is to provide hospital accommodation and services:—

• Beckenham Hospital, Croydon Road, Beckenham, Kent BR3 3QL;

• Bromley Hospital, Cromwell Avenue, Bromley, Kent BR2 9AJ;

• Orpington Hospital, Sevenoaks Road, Orpington, Kent BR6 9JU.

PART II Premises which the trust is to provide and manage pursuant to section 5(1)(b) of the Act, and at which it is to provide hospital accommodation and services:—

• Farnborough Hospital, Farnborough Common, Orpington, Kent BR6 8ND.”

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order amends the Order (“the Establishment Order”) which established the Bromley Hospitals National Health Service Trust.

The Establishment Order is amended to confer on the trust the purpose specified in section 5(1)(b) of the National Health Service and Community Care Act 1990 to provide and manage Farnborough Hospital, Farnborough Common, Orpington, Kent BR6 8ND.

(1)

1977 c. 49; section 126(3) was amended by section 65(2) of the National Health Service and Community Care Act 1990 (c. 19) and by paragraph 57 of Schedule 1 to the Health Authorities Act 1995 (c. 17) (“the 1995 Act”).

(2)

1990 c. 19. Section 5 was amended by paragraph 65 of Schedule 1 to the 1995 Act.

(3)

See S.I. 1996/653, regulation 2(2).

(4)

S.I. 1992/2535.