(1)    This Order may be cited as the Solent National Health Service Trust (Establishment) Order 2011 and shall come into force on 1st April 2011.

(2)    In this Order—

“the Act” means the National Health Service Act 2006;

“community health services” means any service which the Secretary of State has a duty to provide under section 3(1)(d) or (e) of, or paragraph 1 or 8 of Schedule 1 to, the Act and any service which the Secretary of State may provide under paragraph 2 or 7A of that Schedule;

“primary care services” means primary medical services, primary dental services, primary ophthalmic services and pharmaceutical services;

“the trust” means the National Health Service trust established by article 2.

There is established a National Health Service trust which shall be called the Solent National Health Service Trust.

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

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

(2)    If the Secretary of State suspends the chairman, or a non-executive director of the trust, the number of non-executive directors of the trust shall increase during the period of suspension by the number of persons so suspended.

(1)    The operational date of the trust shall be 1st April 2011.

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

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Health.

Simon Burns

Minister of State,

Department of Health

14th March 2011

This Order establishes a National Health Service trust called the Solent National Health Service Trust.

The Order sets out the functions of the trust (article 3), the number of executive and non-executive directors of the trust (article 4), the operational date (the date on which the trust assumes all its functions) and the accounting date of the trust (article 5).