This document establishes the Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre as a National Health Service Trust under the National Health Service and Community Care Act 1990. The order was issued by the Secretary of State for Health in the United Kingdom to formalize the administrative and operational autonomy of the specified hospital facility. It provides the legal framework for the governance, management, and functional scope of the trust within the broader NHS structure.

Legal professionals and historians of the British healthcare system utilize this document as a primary source for tracking the decentralization of NHS management during the early 1990s. It is regarded as a standard administrative instrument rather than a narrative text.