Sheffield No 2 Hospital Management Committee

Management Committee

NHS36/1/1 Minutes, 1948 - 1974

NHS36/1/2 Register of documents, 1951 - 1983

Committees

NHS36/2/1 Farms and Gardens Committee, 1955 - 1956

NHS36/2/2 Finance and General Purposes Committee, 1955 - 1974

NHS36/2/3 Middlewood and Wharncliffe Hospitals House Committee, 1966 - 1969

NHS36/2/4 Peripheral Hospitals House Committee, 1966 - 1969

NHS36/2/5 Supplies Committee, 1955 - 1956

NHS36/2/6 Works and Estates Committe, 1955 - 1974

NHS36/2/7 Duplicate minutes, 1955 - 1957

Patients

NHS36/3/1 Quarterly returns, 1956 - 1965

NHS36/3/2 Schedules of patients, 1960 - 1965

NHS36/3/3 Correspondence, 1958 - 1961

<span class="wrapper"><p>Sheffield Regional Hospital Board records, 1947 - 1974 (NHS27)</p> <p>Hospital Management Committee Group Secretaries, minutes, 1952 - 1974 (NHS27, formerly SY291/H1)</p></span>

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Prior to April 1986 the records previously numbered SY297/H were held by the former South Yorkshire County Record Office.

Constituted at the establishment of the National Health Service (NHS) under the National Health Service Act, 1946, Sheffield No 2 Hospital Management Committee (HMC) was one of thirty HMCs of the Sheffield Regional Hospital Board, four of which covered Sheffield itself.

Sheffield No 2 HMC had its headquarters at Middlewood Hospital. It was responsible for the administration of a number of Sheffield hospitals and hostels mainly for patients with mental deficiencies or mental illness: Aston Hall Institution (later Aughton Court), Aston; Girls& apos; Hostel, Scott Road (later Scott Road Hostel), Sheffield; Thundercliffe Grange, Kimberworth; Grenoside Institution (and Annexe), later Hospital; Hollow Meadows Institution at Malin Bridge; Wharncliffe Emergency Hospital; & apos;Wadsley Mental Hospital& apos; later Middlewood Hospital; Wales Court MD Institution, Kiveton; and Woodhouse Girls& apos; Hostel.

Later additions were: from 1957 the Yews at Worrall, Oughtibridge, adapted to provide a psychiatric day hospital in association with Middlewood Hospital; from 1959 Commonside Hostel, a former hospital adapted in 1958/59 as a hostel for working male mental defectives; and from 1972/73 St Joseph& apos;s Hospital.

Following reorganisation of the National Health Service in 1974, HMCs were abolished on 31 March 1974. New Area Health Authorities, responsible to new Regional Health Authorities, took over the functions and responsibilities of the HMCs as well as the public health functions of local authorities. Sheffield Area Health Authority and Trent Regional Health Authority were legally established as from 1 April 1974.