Catalogue description Ministry of Health and Department of Health and Social Security: Hospitals, Registered Files (File Office H Series)

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.

Earlier minutes of Regional Medical Officers meeting are in:

For further file office H files concerning the Central Health Services Council and its committees see MH 133

MH 163

Department of Health and Social Security, 1968-1988

Ministry of Health, 1919-1968

From 1996 Department of Health