Statutory Instrument 2002 No. 2025

The Lancashire Teaching Hospitals National Health Service Trust (Establishment) and the Chorley and South Ribble National Health Service Trust and Preston Acute Hospitals National Health Service Trust (Dissolution) Order 2002

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"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 also any service which the Secretary of State has a duty to provide under section 5(1) or (1A) [6] of that Act;

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

"the trust" means the Lancashire Teaching Hospitals National Health Service Trust established by article 2 of this Order.

Establishment and name of the trust
     2. There is established a National Health Service trust which shall be called the Lancashire Teaching Hospitals 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 to provide goods and services, namely hospital accommodation and services and community health services, for the purposes of the health service at or from - 

(a) Royal Preston Hospital, Sharoe Green Lane North, Fulwood, Preston, Lancashire PR2 9HT,

(b) Sharoe Green Hospital, Sharoe Green Lane South, Fulwood, Preston, Lancashire, PR2 8DU,

(c) Chorley and South Ribble District General Hospital, Preston Road, Chorley, Lancashire PR7 1PP, and

(d) at or from any associated hospitals, establishments, and facilities.

Directors of the trust
     4. The trust shall have a chairman, 5 executive directors, 6 non-executive directors, and 1 university representative.

Operational and accounting dates of the trust
     5.  - (1) The operational date of the trust shall be 1 August 2002.

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

Dissolution of National Health Service trusts
     6.  - (1) The Chorley and South Ribble National Health Service Trust, which was established by the Chorley and South Ribble National Health Service Trust (Establishment) Order 1992, is dissolved, and that Establishment Order is accordingly revoked.

    (2) The Preston Acute Hospitals National Health Service Trust, which was established by the Preston Acute Hospitals National Health Service Trust (Establishment) Order 1993, is dissolved, and that Establishment Order is accordingly revoked.



Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Health


Hunt
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, Department of Health

29th July 2002

[2] 1990 c. 19. Section 5(1) was amended by the Health Act 1999 (c. 8) ("the 1999 Act"), section 13(1)(a), (10), and by section 65(2), Schedule 5. Paragraph 3 of Schedule 2 was amended by the Health Authorities Act 1995 (c. 17) ("the 1995 Act"), section 2(1), Schedule1, paragraph 85(a); by the 1999 Act, section 13(7), (10), and section 65(1), Schedule 4, paragraphs 74, 83(1), (2).back

[3] S.I. 1992/2470.back

[4] S.I. 1993/2625.back

[5] Section 5(2) of the 1999 Act was amended by the 1995 Act, section 2(1), Schedule 1, paragraph 69(b).back

[6] Section 5(1) of the 1997 Act was amended by the Health and Medicines Act 1988, section 25, and by the School Standards and Framework Act 1998, section 140(3), Schedule 31. Section 5(1A) was inserted by the Health and Medicines Act 1988, section 10(1), and amended by the School Standards and Framework Act 1998, section 140(3), Schedule 31.back