Catalogue description Ministry of Health: Boards of Governors of Teaching Hospitals, Registered Case Files (BG Series)

When the National Health Service was formed in 1946 separate arrangements were made for the administration of teaching hospitals, ie those hospitals which, in addition to providing the usual hospital services, provided clinical facilities for training university students to become doctors and dentists. Their administration was entrusted to boards of governors which combined the functions of a regional board and a management committee in the sense that they were directly answerable to the minister.

Boards of governors were required to submit to the minister annual forecasts of the expenditure they expected or proposed to incur for the second and third years ahead, in the light of which, and having regard to information supplied by the Boards and other considerations, the amount to be permitted to individual moards for hospital expenditure was decided. All boards were notified of an allocation of funds for the second year and given a planning allocation for the third year, all allocations being dependent upon a ultimate approval by parliament of the total vote. Before the second year began boards were required to submit estimates of their expenditure under various subheads for the minister's approval.