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Department of Health and Social Security and predecessors: Disablement Services Branch:...
Catalogue reference: BN 59
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BN 59
Registered files concerning the provision of services to Artificial Limb and Appliance Centres (ALACs) by the Disablement Services Branch of the Supply Division of the Ministry of Pensions and its successors. The files bear the prefix WHG which...
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BN 59
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Title (The name of the record)
- Department of Health and Social Security and predecessors: Disablement Services Branch: Registered Files (WHG Series)
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Date (When the record was created)
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1948-1998
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Description (What the record is about)
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Registered files concerning the provision of services to Artificial Limb and Appliance Centres (ALACs) by the Disablement Services Branch of the Supply Division of the Ministry of Pensions and its successors. The files bear the prefix WHG which stands for Warbreck Hill General Hospital, the secretariat for ALAC services. Most files relate to the Invalid Vehicle Service.
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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Records concerning the health responsibilities of the Ministry of Pensions (including hospitals for war pensioners) are in MH 120
Other records of the Disablement Services Branch will be found in PIN 38
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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Former department reference (Former identifier given by the originating creator)
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WHG file series
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Legal status (A note as to whether the record being described is a Public Record or not)
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Public Record(s)
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Language (The language of the record)
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English
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Creator(s) (The creator of the record)
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- Department of Health and Social Security, 1968-1988
- Ministry of Health, Disablement Services Branch, 1953-1968
- Ministry of Pensions, Disablement Services Branch, 1946-1953
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
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126 file(s)
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
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Open
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Immediate source of acquisition (When and where the record was acquired from)
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From 1994 Department of Health and Social Security
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Subjects (Categories and themes found in our collection (our subject list is under development, and some records may have no subjects or fewer than expected))
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- Topics
- Pay and pensions
- Hospitals
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Series is accruing
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Administrative / biographical background (Historical or biographical information about the creator of the record and the context of its creation)
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Section 28 of the National Health Service Act 1946 made provision for the supply of medical and surgical appliances to war pensioners and patients with permanent or semi-permanent disabilities. Upon creation of the NHS in 1948, the Ministry of Pensions (which had previously supplied such services to the war disabled) continued to supply limbs, vehicles and appliances to NHS patients on behalf of the Ministry of Health. With the abolition of the Ministry of Pensions in 1953, such services became directly administered by the Ministry of Health.
Limbs, appliances and vehicles were dispensed through Artificial Limb and Appliance Centres (ALACs) of which there were 30 in England. In Scotland a similar service was provided by the Health Boards of the Scottish Home and Health Department, whilst in Wales responsibility for ALAC services passed to the Welsh Office.
The Disablement Services Branch of the Ministry of Pensions and the Ministry of Health (and its successors) operated as part of the Supply Division.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C2992/
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