NHS Reform (Hansard, 3 November 1989)

§ Mr. Kenneth Clarke

I will not be able to receive any formal applications until Parliament has given approval to the necessary legislation. Since it is for the sponsor of the proposal in individual units to decide whether and when to prepare an application, the picture is likely to change over time. Amongst those units interested in self-governing status, some are more advanced than others and are likely to be in a position to apply to become an NHS trust in the first wave in April 1991. Others will follow in due course. The preparation of applications is proceeding in many places and the local sponsors are drawing up plans for service development that concentrate on the benefits that establishing an NHS trust could bring to the unit and its patients. Neither I nor any local sponsors have entered into any final commitment at this stage in respect of any unit. Seventy-nine units currently intend to prepare draft applications for NHS Trust status in 1991. The units are listed in the table.

Northern RHA

Darlington Hospital and Community Services
Freeman Hospital
Newcastle Mental Health Services
North Tyneside District
Northumbria Ambulance Services

Yorkshire RHA

Bradford Acute Services
Leeds General Infirmary and Associated Hospitals
St. James University Hospital, Leeds

Trent RHA

Bassetlaw
Children's Hospital, Sheffield
Doncaster Royal Infirmary and the Montagu Hospital
Lincolnshire Ambulance Service
Nether Edge Hospital, Sheffield
Northern General Hospital
Royal Hallamshire Hospital, Sheffield
South Lincolnshire Mental Handicap Services
University Hospital, Nottingham

East Anglian RHA

East Suffolk Community Services
Great Yarmouth and Waveney Priority Services
West Norfolk and Wisbech Community Services
West Norfolk and Wisbech Acute Services

North West Thames RHA

Central Middlesex Hospital
Harefield Hospital
Hillingdon Hospital
Mount Vernon Hospital
North West Hertfordshire Priority Services Unit
North Hertfordshire Acute and Community Services
Northwick Park Hospital

North East Thames RHA

City and Hackney (St. Bartholomew's, Homerton, St. Mark's Hospital Trust)
North Middlesex Hospital
Southend District Services
The London Hospital Group
The Royal Free Hospital
The Royal National Throat, Nose and Ear Hospital

South East Thames RHA

Brighton Acute Services
Bromley Acute Services
Eastbourne Acute Services
Guy's and Lewisham Hospitals and associated Mental Illness Services
King's-Camberwell Acute Services and associated Community Services
St. Thomas's Hospital and associated Community Services

South West Thames RHA

Croydon Mental Handicap Unit
Croydon Community Unit
Kingston Hospital
Mid-Downs West Unit
Mid-Surrey General Unit
South West Surrey Acute Unit
St. Helier and Sutton Hospitals

Wessex RHA

Lymington Hospitals
Royal National Hospital for Rheumatic Diseases
West Dorset Community and General Hospital Services
West Dorset Mental Health Services

Oxford RHA

Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre, Oxford

South Western RHA

Bristol
Cornwall Mental Handicap Services
Cornwall Community Services
East Somerset
East Gloucestershire NHS Trust
Exeter Community Services
North Devon
Plymouth Acute Services
Royal Cornwall Hospitals
South Devon Health Care Trust
West Somerset
West Cornwall
Weston
Wonford Acute Services

West Midlands RHA

Alexandra Hospital
Mid Staffs Mental Health Unit
Mid Staffs Community Unit
Rugby District Services
Walsall Acute Services

Mersey RHA

Broadgreen Hospital, exc. Mersey Regional Cardio-Thoracic Unit
Crewe Acute Services
Halton Community Services
Regional Adult Cardio-Thoracic Unit, Liverpool
Royal Liverpool Children's Hospitals
Whiston St. Helens Hospital

North Western RHA

Central Manchester Hospital and Community Services
Christie Hospital