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Bushey Maternity Hospital

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Alternative name(s):
  • Middlesex County Maternity Hospital (Formerly known as)
Date: 1938-1959
History: In 1937 Middlesex County Council acquired the newly built Bushey Health Clinic at Heathbourne Road in Bushey, re-naming it Middlesex County Maternity Hospital. It opened in 1938 with 48 beds. After the foundation of the National Health Service in 1948, it was administered by the Hendon Group Hospital Management Committee as part of the North West Metropolitan Regional Hospital Board. From 1950 until it closure it had beds for 50 patients. In 1974 it became part of the Hendon District Health Authority in the North West Thames Regional Health Authority. The hospital was closed in 1977. The site was bought by BUPA, and the hospital was re-developed. In May 2008 Spire Bushey Hospital was opened.
Places:
  • Bushey, Hertfordshire
Functions, occupations and activities: Health and social care > Hospitals
History Links: webpage on Bushey Maternity Hospital
References: Hosprec database; A2A catalogue; Lost Hospitals of London website
Name authority reference: GB/NNAF/C76077 (Former ISAAR ref: GB/NNAF/O90868 )
Collections
Number Description Held by Reference Further information
1
1938-59: admission and discharge registers, registers of confinements, maternity case books, case books (non-maternity)
The London Archives: City of London
H16/BM
NRA 33037
Related record creators
  Record creator Description of relationship Dates Category of relationship
1
Edgware General Hospital
Bushey Maternity Hospital, then known as Middlesex County Maternity Hospital,was administered from Edgware Hospital, then known as Redhill County
1938-1948
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2
Hendon Group Hospital Management Committee
Bushey Maternity Hospital was managed by the Hendon Group Hospital Management Committee
1948-1974
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3
North West Metropolitan Regional Hospital Board, London
Bushey Maternity Hospital was under the authority of the North West Metropolitan Hospital Board
1948-1974
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4
North West Thames Regional Health Authority
Bushey Maternity Hospital came under the authority of the North West Thames Regional Health Authority
1974-1977
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