The Bedfordshire and Luton Community National Health Service Trust (Establishment) Order 1999

Statutory Instruments

1999 No. 895

NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE, ENGLAND AND WALES

The Bedfordshire and Luton Community National Health Service Trust (Establishment) Order 1999

Made

19th March 1999

Coming into force

1st April 1999

The Secretary of State for Health, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by section 5(1) of, and paragraphs 1, 3 and 6(2)(d) of Schedule 2 to, the National Health Service and Community Care Act 1990(1) and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, having completed the consultation prescribed by section 5(2) of that Act(2), and considering it appropriate to include, among the functions of the NHS trust established by this Order, functions in relation to the provision of services by the trust for one or more Health Authorities or Special Health Authorities(3), hereby makes the following Order:

Citation, commencement and interpretation

1.—(1) This Order may be cited as the Bedfordshire and Luton Community National Health Service Trust (Establishment) Order 1999 and shall come into force on 1st April 1999.

(2) In this Order, unless the context otherwise requires–

“the Act” means the National Health Service and Community Care Act 1990;

“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(4);

“operational date” has the meaning assigned to it in paragraph 3(1)(e) of Schedule 2 to the Act;

“the Schedule” means the Schedule to this Order;

“the trust” means the Bedfordshire and Luton Community National Health Service Trust established by article 2 of this Order.

Establishment of the trust

2.  There is hereby established an NHS trust which shall be called the Bedfordshire and Luton Community National Health Service Trust.

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:–

(a) to own and manage pursuant to section 5(1)(a) of the Act 1 Union Street, Luton, Beds. LU1 3AN, 40 Kimbolton Road, Bedford MK40 2NR, and associated establishments and facilities, and there to provide and manage hospital accommodation and services, and there and from there to provide and manage community health services;

(b) to provide and manage pursuant to section 5(1)(b) of the Act the properties listed in Part I of the Schedule, and there to provide and manage hospital accommodation and services; and

(c) to provide and manage pursuant to section 5(1)(b) of the Act the properties listed in Part II of the Schedule, and there and from there to provide and manage community health services.

Directors of the trust

4.  The trust shall have, in addition to the chairman, 5 non-executive directors and 5 executive directors.

Operational date and accounting date of the trust

5.—(1) The operational date of the trust shall be 1st April 1999.

(2) The accounting date of the trust shall be 31st March.

Restriction on disposal of assets

6.  The sum specified for the purposes of paragraph 6(2)(d) of Schedule 2 to the Act (maximum value of freely disposable assets) in relation to the trust shall be £1,000,000.

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Health

John Denham

Minister of State,

Department of Health

19th March 1999

Article 3(2)

SCHEDULE

PART I (Properties provided and managed pursuant to section 5(1)(b) of the Act for the provision of hospital accommodation and services)

• 105 London Road, Luton, Beds LU1 8RG

• Hampden House, Bedford Road, Hitchin, Herts SG5 1NF

• Plot 5 (Blue Circle Site), Mayer Way, Houghton Regis, Dunstable LU5 5BF

• Oakley Court, Angel Close, Oakley Road, Leagrave, Luton LU4 9WT

• Foxholes, Pirton Road, Hitchin, Herts SG5 2EN

• Whichello’s Wharf, The Elms, Linslade, Beds LU7 7TD

PART II (Properties provided and managed pursuant to section 5(1)(b) of the Act for the provision of community health services)

• 1 Union Street, Luton LU1 3AN

• Orchard Cottage, Church Road, Lower Sundon, Beds LU3 3PB

• Askern House, Manor Road, Kempston Hardwick, Beds MK43 9NP

• 16 Wingfield Road, Bromham, Bedford MK43 8JZ

• 95 Elstow Road, Bedford MK42 9NS

• Southways Elderly Persons' Home, 290 London Road, Bedford MK42 0PX

• 5–7 Rush Court, Bedford MK40 8JT

• Healthlink, 26–28 Bromham Road, Bedford MK40 2QD

• Overstones, Bowling Green Lane, Luton LU2 2HR

• Cedar Lodge, 9 Sundon Road, Streatley, Luton LU3 3PL

• Red House Farm, Cotton End Road, Wilstead, Beds MK45 3DP

• Asplands Medical Centre, Wood Street, Woburn Sands, Beds MK17 8QP

• Cranfield Surgery, 137 High Street, Cranfield, Beds MK43 0HZ

• Woburn Surgery, Eleanor Close, Woburn, Beds MK17 9QU

• Child Development Centre, Hill Rise, Kempston, Bedford MK42 7EB

• Arlesey Health Centre, High Street, Arlesey, Beds SG15 6SN

• Sisters House, 24 St. Peters Street, Bedford MK40 2NN

• Elizabeth Court, Gravely Road, Stevenage SG1 4YS

• Victoria Court, Gravely Road, Stevenage SG1 4YS

• 110 Rossfold Road, Luton LU3 3IJ

• Bury Park House, 64 Westbourne Road, Luton, Beds LU4 8JD

• Collingdon Centre, 33–37 Collingdon Street, Luton LU1 1RT

• Conifers, 10 Newbury Lane, Silsoe, Beds MK45 4ET

• Poynters House, Poynters Road, Dunstable LU5 4TP

• The Lodge, 4 George Street, Luton LU1 2BJ

• Titan Court, Unit 16, Laport Way, Kingsway, Luton LU4 5EF

• Washbrook House, 50 Washbrook Close, Barton-le-Clay, Beds MK45 4LF

• Woodlands, Leamington Road, Barton Hills, Luton LU3 3XF

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order establishes on 1st April 1999 the Bedfordshire and Luton Community National Health Service Trust (“the new trust”), an NHS trust provided for in section 5 of the National Health Service and Community Care Act 1990. It also provides for the functions of the new trust (article 3). It specifies the number of executive and non-executive directors of the new trust (article 4), its operational date (the date on which the new trust assumes all its functions) and its accounting date (article 5), and the value above which assets cannot be disposed of without the Secretary of State’s consent (article 6).

The new trust replaces the Bedford and Shires Health and Care and the South Bedfordshire Community Health Care National Health Service Trusts, and this Order should be read in conjunction with the Bedford and Shires Health and Care and the South Bedfordshire Community Health Care National Health Service Trusts (Dissolution) Order 1999(5).

(1)

1990 c. 19; paragraph 1 of Schedule 2 is cited for the definition of “an order”.

(2)

Section 5 was amended by paragraph 69 of Schedule 1 to the Health Authorities Act 1995 (c. 17); see S.I. 1996/653.

(3)

See section 5(6) of the National Health Service and Community Care Act 1990 (c. 19).

(4)

1977 c. 49; section 5 was amended by and section 5(1A) inserted by the Health and Medicines Act 1988 (c. 49), section 10(1); Schedule 1 was amended by the Education Act 1980 (c. 20), Schedule 1, and the Health and Medicines Act 1988, Schedule 2, paragraph 7.

(5)

S.I. 1999/894.