The Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership National Health Service Trust (Establishment) Order 2006

This Order may be cited as the Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership National Health Service Trust (Establishment) Order 2006 and shall come into force on 1st October 2006.

In this Order—

• “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 she has a duty to provide under section 5(1) of that Act3;

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

• “the trust” means the Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership National Health Service Trust established by article 2 of this Order.

The trust is established for the purposes specified in section 5(1) of the Act.

The trust’s functions shall be to provide goods and services, namely hospital accommodation and services and community health services, for the purposes of the health service.

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

Since the trust is to be regarded as having a significant teaching commitment within the meaning of paragraph 3(1)(d) of Schedule 2 to the Act one of the non-executive directors shall be appointed from the University of Warwick Medical School.

The operational date of the trust shall be 1st October 2006.

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