
1 

(1) This Order may be cited as the National Health Service (Regional Health Authorities) Order 1994 and shall come into force on 1st April 1994.
(2) In this Order, “the Regions Order” means the National Health Service (Determination of Regions) Order 1994.
2 
The Regional Health Authorities specified in Schedule 1 to this Order are hereby abolished.
3 
Trent Regional Health Authority and West Midlands Regional Health Authority shall continue to be established in relation to Trent Region and West Midlands Region respectively, the determination of each of which is continued by the Regions Order.
4 
For each of the regions determined by the Regions Order and specified in column (1) of Schedule 2 to this Order there is established a Regional Health Authority which shall be known by the name specified in column (2) of that Schedule in relation to that region.
5 
The National Health Service (Constitution of Regional Health Authorities) Order 1975 is hereby revoked.
Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Health
Tom Sackville
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State,
Department of Health
10th March 1994
SCHEDULE 1
article 2


 Northern Regional Health Authority
 Yorkshire Regional Health Authority
 East Anglian Regional Health Authority
 North West Thames Regional Health Authority
 North East Thames Regional Health Authority
 South East Thames Regional Health Authority
 South West Thames Regional Health Authority
 Wessex Regional Health Authority
 Oxford Regional Health Authority
 South Western Regional Health Authority
 Mersey Regional Health Authority
 North Western Regional Health Authority

SCHEDULE 2
article 4


(1) (2)
Name of region Name of Regional Health Authority
Northern and Yorkshire Region Northern and Yorkshire Regional Health Authority
Anglia and Oxford Region Anglia and Oxford Regional Health Authority
North Thames Region North Thames Regional Health Authority
South Thames Region South Thames Regional Health Authority
South and West Region South and West Regional Health Authority
North West Region North West Regional Health Authority