Catalogue description Ministry of Health and Department of Health and Social Security: Hospital Management Committees, Registered Case Files (MC Series)

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Reference: MH 87
Title: Ministry of Health and Department of Health and Social Security: Hospital Management Committees, Registered Case Files (MC Series)
Description:

This series contains documents originating in the Ministry of Health and successor, containing correspondence relating to four representative Hospital Management Committees (HMC): Banstead HMC, Croydon and Warlingham HMC, Newcastle upon Tyne HMC and Winterton HMC, Co Durham. Subsequently, papers of administrative importance from a number of other HMCs, both before and after April 1974, were added to this series.
Date: 1923-1979
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Former reference in its original department: MC file series
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Creator:

Department of Health and Social Security, 1968-1988

Ministry of Health, 1919-1968
Physical description: 478 file(s)
Administrative / biographical background:

Until the National Health Service Reorganisation Act 1973 (implemented in April 1974), Hospital Management Committees (HMC) were appointed by Regional Hospital Boards (RHB). They included representatives of local health authorities, executive councils, dental staffs, and other relevant bodies. HMCs were voluntary committees, responsible for the control and management of a hospital or group of hospitals.

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