Series
Ministry of Health and Department of Health and Social Security: Hospitals, Registered...
Catalogue reference: MH 160
What's it about?
MH 160
This series contains files from File Office H, which dealt with hospital projects and planning, including the hospital building programme, and hospital grouping. Other topics covered include hospital audit and management, infection control in...
Full description and record details
-
Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- MH 160
-
Title (The name of the record)
- Ministry of Health and Department of Health and Social Security: Hospitals, Registered Files (File Office H Series)
-
Date (When the record was created)
- 1947-1994
-
Description (What the record is about)
-
This series contains files from File Office H, which dealt with hospital projects and planning, including the hospital building programme, and hospital grouping. Other topics covered include hospital audit and management, infection control in hospitals, research and development of pathology services, hospital dental services, hospital maternity services, psychiatric hospital services, medical and clinical research, the provision of cancer treatment, haemolytic disease, radiation and radiotherapy, the reorganisation of the National Health Service, and visits by the secretary of state and senior staff to hospitals and hospital authorities.
Also includes minutes and papers of the Committee on Hospital Scientific and Technical Services (Zuckerman Committee), the Advisory Committee on the Use of Foetuses and Foetal Material for Research (Peel Committee), the Advisory Committee on Hospital Medical Records, and the Central Health Services Council. Other files relate to the establishment of the ombudsman under the Parliamentary Commissioner for Administration Act, 1967.
-
Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
-
For further file office H files concerning the Central Health Services Council and its committees see MH 133
Earlier minutes of Regional Medical Officers meeting are in: MH 163
-
Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
-
Former department reference (Former identifier given by the originating creator)
- File Office H series
-
Legal status (A note as to whether the record being described is a Public Record or not)
- Public Record(s)
-
Language (The language of the record)
- English
-
Creator(s) (The creator of the record)
-
- Department of Health and Social Security, 1968-1988
- Ministry of Health, 1919-1968
-
Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 1563 file(s)
-
Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
- Open unless otherwise stated
-
Immediate source of acquisition (When and where the record was acquired from)
-
From 1996 Department of Health
-
Accruals (Indicates whether the archive expects to receive further records in future)
- Series is accruing
-
Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C10998/
Catalogue hierarchy
This record is held at The National Archives, Kew
Within the department: MH
Records created or inherited by the Ministry of Health and successors, Local Government...
You are currently looking at the series: MH 160
Ministry of Health and Department of Health and Social Security: Hospitals, Registered Files (File Office H Series)