RECORDS OF BATH DISTRICT HEALTH AUTHORITY

Bath District Health Authority was created following the NHS reorganisation of 1974 whereupon regional hospital boards were replaced by regional health authorities and below this hospital management committees were replaced by area health authorities and district health authorities as a three-tier system. Bath District Health Authority was under Wiltshire Area Health Authority (which was under Wessex Regional Health Authority).

The Bath District covered a much wider area than the former hospital management committee. It served hospitals, health centres and clinics in Bath, parts of Somerset south and south-west of Bath, north Wiltshire and West Wiltshire.

Another NHS reorganisation in 1982 meant that area health authorities were abolished and greater responsibility went to the district health authorities. Bath and Wiltshire authorities merged in 1994 to form a larger health authority.

Hospitals under BDHA included:
Royal United Hospital, Bath [for records see HOS/3]
Bath & Wessex Orthopaedic Hospital for Children [for records see HOS/6]
Forbes Fraser Hospital [for records see HOS/7]
Weston Lodge Hospital
Royal National Hospital for Rheumatic Diseases [for records see HOS1]
St Martin's Hospital, Bath [for records see HOS8]
Claverton Down Isolation Hospital [for records see HOS5]
Paulton Memorial Hospital [records held at Somerset Archives]
Shepton Mallet Hospital [records held at Somerset Archives]
St Peter's Hospital, Shepton Mallet [records held at Somerset Archives]
Winsley Chest Hospital [records mainly held at Wiltshire & Swindon History Centre]
Bradford on Avon Hospital
Bradford on Avon Maternity Hospital
Chippenham Hospital [records at Wiltshire & Swindon History Centre]
St Andrew's Hospital, Chippenham
Frogwell Hospital [records at Wiltshire & Swindon History Centre]
Greenways Maternity Hospital [records at Wiltshire & Swindon History Centre]
Malmesbury Hospital [records at Wiltshire & Swindon History Centre]
Devizes Hospital [records at Wiltshire & Swindon History Centre]
Devizes Maternity Hospital [records at Wiltshire & Swindon History Centre]
St James's Hospital, Devizes [records at Wiltshire & Swindon History Centre]
Roundway Hospital [records at Wiltshire & Swindon History Centre]
Melksham Hospital [records at Wiltshire & Swindon History Centre]
St George's Hospital [records at Wiltshire & Swindon History Centre]
Trowbridge Hospital [records at Wiltshire & Swindon History Centre]
St John's Hospital, Trowbridge [records at Wiltshire & Swindon History Centre]
Westbury Hospital [records at Wiltshire & Swindon History Centre]
Warminster Hospital [records at Wiltshire & Swindon History Centre]
Beckford Hospital
Sambourne Hospital [records at Wiltshire & Swindon History Centre]
Victoria Hospital, Frome [records held at Somerset Archives]
St Aldhelm's Hospital, Frome [records held at Somerset Archives]

Records for Wessex Regional Health Authority held at Hampshire Archives and Local Studies; records for Wiltshire Area Health Authority held at Wiltshire & Swindon History Centre; records for Bath Mental Healthcare Trust held at Wiltshire & Swindon History Centre; records for Bath and Wiltshire Health Authority held at Wiltshire & Swindon History Centre.