Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order amends the East and North Hertfordshire National Health Service Trust (Establishment) Order 2000 (“the Establishment Order”), which established the East and North Hertfordshire National Health Service Trust (“the trust”).

Article 2 omits definitions that are no longer of any ongoing relevance and amends the definition of the trust.

Article 3 amends the name of the trust to East and North Hertfordshire Teaching National Health Service Trust.

Article 4 sets out the functions of the trust as being to provide goods and services for the purposes of the health service.

Article 5 increases the number of non-executive directors and specifies that one non-executive director must be appointed from the University of Hertfordshire.

Article 6 omits the trust’s “operational date” as it is of no on-going relevance.

Article 7 revokes articles 6 and 7 of the Establishment Order as they relate to the period before the trust’s operational date and are of no on-going relevance.

A full impact assessment has not been produced for this instrument as it has no effect on private sector or civil society organisations, and no significant effect on the public sector.