The Public Health Wales National Health Service Trust (Establishment) Order 2009

• Citation: S.I. 2009/2058 (W.)
• Sections: 6

Section 1 Title, commencement and interpretation

(1) The title of this Order is the ublic Health Wales National Health Service Trust (Establishment) Order 2009 and it comes into force on 1 August 2009.

(2) In this Order—

“the Act” (“ y Ddeddf ”) means the National Health Service (Wales) Act 2006;

“establishment date” (“ dyddiad sefydlu ”) means 1 August 2009;

“operational date” (“ dyddiad g eithredol ”) has the meaning assigned to it in paragraph 5(5) of Schedule 3 to the Act;

“the trust” (“ yr ymddiriedolaeth ”) means the Public Health Wales National Health Service Trust established by article 2 of this Order.

Section 2 Establishment of the trust

There is established an NHS trust which is called the Public Health Wales National Health Service Trust or Ymddiriedolaeth Gwasanaeth Iechyd Gwladol Iechyd Cyhoeddus Cymru.

Section 3 Nature and functions of the trust

(1) The trust is established for the purpose specified in section 18(1) of the Act.

(2) The trust’s functions are:

(a) to provide to or in relation to the health service in Wales and manage a range of public health, health protection, healthcare improvement, health advisory, child protection and microbiological laboratory services and services relating to the surveillance, prevention and control of communicable diseases;

(b) to develop and maintain arrangements for making information about matters related to the protection and improvement of health in Wales available to the public in Wales; to undertake and commission research into such matters and to contribute to the provision and development of training in such matters;

(c) to undertake the systematic collection, analysis and dissemination of information about the health of the people of Wales in particular including cancer incidence, mortality and survival; and prevalence of congenital anomalies; and

(d) to provide, manage, monitor, evaluate and conduct research into screening of health conditions and screening of health related matters.

Section 4 Directors of the trust

The trust has, in addition to the chairman and vice-chair , 6 non-executive directors and 6 executive directors.

Section 5 Operational date and accounting date of the trust

(1) The operational date of the trust is 1 October 2009.

(2) The accounting date of the trust is 31 March.

Section 6 Limited functions before operational date

Between its establishment date and its operational date the trust has the functions—

(a) of entering into NHS contracts;

(b) of entering into other contracts including contracts of employment; and

(c) of doing such other things as are reasonably necessary to enable it to begin to operate satisfactorily with effect from its operational date.