Trent Regional Health Authority

Records including some inherited from predecessor authorities:

Regional Health Authority 1973 - 1996

NHS32/1/1 Minutes, 1973 - 1996

NHS32/1/2 Appointments and membership, 1973 - 1979

NHS32/1/3 Annual reports, 1975 - 1979

Committees 1971 - 1982

NHS32/2/1 Headquarters Reorganisation Staff Joint Consultative Committee, 1971 - 1977

NHS32/2/2 Staff Joint Consultative Committee, 1977 - 1982

NHS32/2/3 Regional and Area Health Authority Chairmen, 1973 - 1979

NHS32/2/4 Regional Team of Officers, 1974 - 1975

NHS32/2/5 Regional Nurse Training Committee, 1974 - 1975

General Administration 1972 - 1994

NHS32/3/1 National Health Service, 1973 - 1981

NHS32/3/2 Planning and policies, 1972 - 1989

NHS32/3/3 Statistics, 1974 - 1986

NHS32/3/4 Finance, 1978 - 1990

NHS32/3/5 Establishment, 1974 - 1994

NHS32/3/6 Individual hospitals, 1968 - 1994

NHS32/3/7 Services and facilities, 1969 - 1990

NHS32/3/8 Official visits, 1976 - 1992

Maps and plans 1938 - 1994

NHS32/4/1 Regional plans, 1973 - 1981

NHS32/4/2 Architectural drawings and site plans, 1938 - 1994

NHS32/4/3 Number not used

NHS32/4/4 Miscellaneous plans, c. 1970 - 1977

<p>Sheffield Regional Hospital Board records, 1948 - 1974 (NHS 27)</p>

Information in the minute books may be subject to access restrictions as exempt from provisions of the Freedom of Information Act. For further information please refer to a member of staff.

Acc. 2006/40 received in the post from the Department of Health& apos;s Departmental Records Office, Nelson, Lancashire.

Regional Health Authorities (RHAs) were established following the reorganisation of the National Health Service in 1974. Trent RHA held its first meeting on 20 August 1973, and came into full effect on 1 April 1974.

Trent RHA was the second largest RHA in the country, serving 4.5 million people. It was composed of a chairman and members, two thirds of whom were appointed by the Secretary of State and one third by the local authorities. Responsible to it was a Regional Team of Officers, comprising a regional administrator, treasurer, works officer, medical officer and nursing officer.

RHAs were responsible for strategic and financial planning and the allocation of finance to various schemes. They also directly provided certain services such as major building development and blood transfusions. Trent RHA& apos;s headquarters were in Sheffield as the city was home to the region& apos;s only medical school.

Trent RHA ceased to exist after 31 March 1996 following the Health Authorities Act, 1995. It was replaced by NHS Executive Trent, one of eight Regional Offices of the NHS.