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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 any service which he has a duty to provide under section 5(1) or (1A) of that Act[6];

"dissolution date" means the date this Order comes into force;

"operational date" has the meaning assigned to it in paragraph 3(1)(e) of Schedule 2 to the Act[7]; and

"the trust" means the Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital National Health Service Trust established by article 2 of this Order.

Establishment and name of trust
     2. There is established a National Health Service trust which shall be called the Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital 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) Princess Royal Hospital, Apley Castle, Telford, Shropshire TF6 6TF,

(b) Royal Shrewsbury Hospital, Mytton Oak Road, Shrewsbury, Shropshire SY3 8XQ,

and at or from any associated hospitals, establishments and facilities.

Directors of trust
     4. The trust shall have, in addition to the chairman, 5 executive and 6 non-executive directors.

Operational date and accounting date of the trust
     5.  - (1) The operational date of the trust shall be 1st October 2003.

    (2) The accounting date of the trust shall be 1st October.

Dissolution of NHS trusts
     6. On the dissolution date - 

(a) the Princess Royal Hospital National Health Service Trust which was established by the Princess Royal Hospital National Health Service Trust (Establishment) Order 1992[8]; and

(b) the Royal Shrewsbury Hospitals National Health Service Trust which was established by the Royal Shrewsbury Hospitals National Health Service Trust (Establishment) Order 1993[9],

are dissolved, and accordingly their Establishment Orders are revoked.



Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Health


Stephen Ladyman
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, Department of Health

10th September 2003

[2] 1990 c. 19; section 5(1) was amended by sections 13(1)(a), (10) and 65(2) of, and Schedule 5 to, the 1999 Act; paragraph 3 of Schedule 2 was amended by section 2(1) of, and paragraph 85(a) of Schedule 1 to, the 1995 Act and by sections 13(7), (10) and 65(1) of, and paragraphs 74, 83(1) and (2) of Schedule 4 to, the 1999 Act.back

[3] S.I. 1992/2554 as amended by S.I. 1995/88.back

[4] S.I. 1993/2573.back

[5] 1990 c. 19; section 5(2) was amended by section 2(1) of, and paragraph 69(b) of Schedule 1 to, the 1995 Act. See S.I. 1996/653 for the prescribed consultation.back

[6] 1977 c. 49; Schedule 1 was amended by paragraph 21 of Schedule 12 of the Education Reform Act 1988 (c. 40), by paragraph 7 of Schedule 2 to the Health and Medicines Act 1988 (c. 49) ("the 1988 Act") and by paragraph 46 of Schedule 37 to the Education Act 1996 (c. 56); section 5(1) was amended, and section 5(1A) was inserted, by section 10(1) of the 1988 Act.back

[7] See paragraph 5(1) of Schedule 2 to the National Health Service and Community Care Act 1990 (c. 19).back

[8] S.I. 1992/2554 as amended by S.I. 1995/88.back

[9] S.I. 1993/2573.back

  Prepared 17 September 2003