The National Health Service Appointments Commission (Establishment and Constitution) Order 2001
This Order provides for the establishment and constitution of a Special Health Authority, to be known as the National Health Service Appointments Commission (“the Commission”), to exercise such of the Secretary of State’s functions in connection with the appointment of chairmen, members or directors of health service bodies in England, special trustees of health service hospitals in England and trustees for NHS trusts and Primary Care Trusts in England, and such other functions as he may direct it to perform.