This document establishes the legal framework for the creation of the Guys and Lewisham 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 transition of specific hospital facilities into a unified NHS Trust. It serves as the foundational legislative instrument defining the trust's operational scope, management structure, and legal identity within the British healthcare system.

Legal professionals and historians utilize this text as a primary source document for tracking the administrative restructuring of the British National Health Service during the early 1990s. It is a technical, bureaucratic instrument intended for archival and regulatory reference rather than general readership.