Statutory Instruments

1999 No. 2372

NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE, ENGLAND

The University College London Hospitals National Health Service Trust (Establishment) Amendment Order 1999

Made

23rd August 1999

Coming into force

2nd September 1999

The Secretary of State for Health, in exercise of the powers conferred on him 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, after completion of the consultation prescribed under section 5(2) of the latter Act(3), considering it appropriate that the functions of the trust should include functions in relation to the provision of services for one or more Health Authorities(4), hereby makes the following Order:

Citation and commencement

1. This Order may be cited as the University College London Hospitals National Health Service Trust (Establishment) Amendment Order 1999 and shall come into force on 2nd September 1999.

Amendment of NHS trust Establishment Order

2. For article 3 of the University College London Hospitals National Health Service Trust (Establishment) Order 1996(5) (functions of the trust) there shall be substituted the following article-�

"Nature and functions of the trust

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

(2) The trust's functions shall be to provide and manage hospital accommodation and services (including the management of its teaching and research facilities) and to provide and manage other establishments and facilities at:

(i)St. Martin's House, 140 Tottenham Court Road, London W1P 9LN,

(ii)The Middlesex Hospital, Mortimer Street, London W1N 8AA,

(iii)The Eastman Dental Hospital, 256 Gray's Inn Road, London WC1X 8LD,

(iv)The National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, Queen Square, London WC1N 3BG,

(v)The Obstetric Hospital, Huntley Street, London WC1E 6AU,

(vi)Cecil Fleming House, Grafton Way, London WC1E 6DB,

(vii)The United Elizabeth Garrett Anderson Hospital and Hospital for Women (Soho), 144 Euston Road, London NW1 2AP,

(viii)the site known as "the Odeon Site", Grafton Way, London WC1E 6DB, and

(ix)a site bordering Euston Road, Gower Street, Tottenham Court Road and Grafton Way, London WC1,

and at any other associated hospitals, establishments or facilities.".

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Health

John Hutton

Parliamentary Under Secretary of State,

Department of Health

23rd August 1999

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order amends the Order ("the Establishment Order") which established the University College London Hospitals National Health Service Trust ("the Trust").

The Establishment Order is amended to confer on the trust the purposes 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. The functions of the trust are further amended so that the trust is also entitled to provide and manage services from additional sites.

(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) ("the 1990 Act") and by paragraph 57 of Schedule 1 to the Health Authorities Act 1995 (c. 17) ("the 1995 Act") and by section 41(10) and paragraph 27 of Schedule 2 to the National Health Service (Primary Care) Act 1997 (c. 46).

(2)

1990 c. 19; section 5 was amended by paragraph 69 of Schedule 1 to the 1995 Act.

(3)

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

(4)

See section 5(6) of the 1990 Act.

(5)

S.I. 1996/401.