Citation and commencement

1. This Order may be cited as the Thameside Community Health Care National Health Service Trust (Establishment) Amendment Order 1996, and shall come into force on 7th April 1996.

Amendment of Establishment Order

2. In Article 3 of the Thameside Community Health Care National Health Service Trust (Establishment) Order 1992(3) (functions of the trust)-

(a)in paragraph (1) for "section 5(1)(a)" there shall be substituted "section 5(1)(b)";

(b)for paragraph (2) there shall be substituted the following new paragraph:-

"(2) The trust's functions shall be-

(a)to provide and manage hospital accommodation and services provided at Thurrock Hospital, Long Lane, Grays, Essex RM16 2PX and associated hospitals;

(b)to manage community health services provided from Thurrock Hospital, Long Lane, Grays, Essex RM16 2PX and to provide the associated premises."

Explanatory Note

This note is not part of the Order)

This Order amends the Order which established the Thameside Community Health Care National Health Service Trust (now called the Thameside Community Healthcare National Health Service Trust) to alter the purpose for which the trust has been established and to amend its functions. (The trust has, in exercise of its existing functions, assumed responsibility for the management of hospital accommodation and services provided at Thurrock Hospital, Grays, Essex and community health services formerly provided from South Ockenden Hospital, Essex, but now provided from Thurrock Hospital, Grays, Essex and for the ownership of the associated premises, previously managed by the former Basildon and Thurrock Health Authority.)

This Order confers 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 hospitals or other establishments or facilities-and amends the trust's functions so that it is no longer required to own the premises at which it is to provide hospital and community health services.