Sheffield Regional Hospital Board

Records including some inherited from predecessor organisations and continued by successor organisations:

Regional Board

NHS27/1/1 Minutes, 1947 - 1974

NHS27/1/2 Meeting papers, 1961 - 1974

NHS27/1/3 Attendance, 1966 - 1974

Committees

NHS27/2 45 committees: meeting papers and correspondence, 1948 - 1974

General administration

NHS27/3/1 National Health Service: meetings, 1947 - 1967

NHS27/3/2 National Health Service: reorganisation, 1947 - 1973

NHS27/3/3 Regional Services, 1953 - 1974

NHS27/3/4 Planning and policies, 1952 - 1972

NHS27/3/5 Statistics, 1948 - 1974

NHS27/3/6 Finance, 1969 - 1973

NHS27/3/7 Establishment, 1947 - 1974

NHS27/3/8 Hospital Management Committees (HMCs), 1960 - 1970

NHS27/3/9 HMCs: circulars, 1948 - 1973

NHS27/3/10 Individual establishments, 1948 - 1986

NHS27/3/11 Services and facilities, 1948 - 1974

NHS27/3/12 Legal and disciplinary cases, 1957 - 1973

NHS27/3/13 Official visits and events, 1961 - 1986

Finance

NHS27/4/1 Ledgers, 1948 - 1965

NHS27/4/2 Expenditure journals, 1949 - 1968

NHS27/4/3 Cash books, 1947 - 1968

NHS27/4/4 Payments accounts, 1959 - 1967

NHS27/4/5 Losses and compensation, 1950 - 1966

NHS27/4/6 Salaries and wages, [1948] - 1969

NHS27/4/7 Capital expenditure, 1958 - 1974

NHS27/4/8 Summary returns, 1969 - 1973

NHS27/4/9 Building and engineering maintenance, 1967 - 1969

Maps and plans

NHS27/5/1 Architectural drawings and plans, 1936 - 1973

NHS27/5/2 Ordnance Survey maps, c. 1950

Sheffield Liaison Committee

NHS27/6 Committee minutes, 1949 - 1979

Hospital Management Committees: regional

NHS27/7/1 National Association of HMC group secretaries: Sheffield region, 1952 - 1973

NHS27/7/2 Meetings of HMC finance officers, 1950 - 1966

National Hospital Service Reserve: Sheffield Area

NHS27/8 Minutes, 1956 - 1968

<span class="wrapper"><p>SRHB salaries record, 1962 - 1964 (Acc. 2007/126)</p> <p>Sheffield No 1 Hospital Management Committee records (NHS35)</p> <p>Sheffield No 2 Hospital Management Committee records (NHS36)</p> <p>Sheffield No 3 Hospital Management Committee records (NHS37)</p> <p>Sheffield No 4 Hospital Management Committee records (NHS38)</p> <p>Barnsley Hospital Management Committee records (NHS39)</p> <p>Sheffield Regional Advisory Committee in Pathology [recognised as the standing advisory committee in pathology for the SRHB]: minutes, 1948-1974 (Acc. 1997/13)</p></span>

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Prior to April 1986 the records previously numbered SY291, SY333 and SY709 were held by the former South Yorkshire County Record Office.

The Sheffield Regional Hospital Board (one of 14 for England and Wales) was constituted under National Health Service Act, 1946. It exercised functions with respect to the administration of hospital and specialist services over the administrative counties of Derby (except the part included in the Manchester Regional Hospital Area), Leicester, Lincoln, parts of Holland (Lincoln), Kesteven (except the part included in the East Anglian Regional Hospital Area) (Lincoln), Lindsey, Nottingham and Rutland (except the rural district of Ketton). The county boroughs of Barnsley, Derby, Doncaster, Grimsby, Leicester, Lincoln, Nottingham, Rotherham and Sheffield were also included. The Board also covered much of the administrative county of the West Riding of Yorkshire. This included the urban districts of Adwick-le-Street, Bentley with Arksey, Conisborough, Cudworth, Darfield, Darton, Dearne, Dodworth, Hoyland Nether, Maltby, Mexborough, Penistone, Rawmarsh, Royston, Stocksbridge, Swinton, Tickhill, Wath-upon-Dearne, Wombwell and Worsborough; and the rural districts of Doncaster, Kiveton Park, Penistone, Rotherham, Thorne and Wortley.

It appointed 30 management committees to administer groups of hospitals on a day to day basis and by 1951 the Board was responsible for 36,589 beds in 204 hospitals of various types. It was based at Fulwood House, Sheffield. There were four management committees in Sheffield itself.

A regional computer centre was established in 1968; a computer was obtained at a cost of £194,800.

The Board continued until 31 March 1974. From 1 April 1974, following reorganisation of the NHS, regional hospital boards were abolished. They were replaced by 14 Regional Health Authorities in the country, with new Area Health Authorities taking over the responsibilities of hospital management committees and the public health functions of local authorities. Trent Regional Health Authority was the successor body to SRHB.