AdminHistory | The United Sheffield Hospitals (USH) was established under the National Health Service Act, 1946 (in force 5 July 1948) to administer the group of former voluntary hospitals in Sheffield: the Royal Infirmary, Royal Hospital, Jessop Hospital for Women, Sheffield Children's Hospital and the Edgar Allen Physiotherapy Centre. It was managed by a Board of Governors appointed by the Minister of Health.
As further hospitals were built the USH also managed the Charles Clifford Dental Hospital in Wellesley Road (opened in 1953), and the New Teaching Hospital Out-Patients Department, Glossop Road (opened in 1961, later becoming the Royal Hallamshire Hospital). There was also the Woofindin Rehabilitation Centre, converted into the Whiteley Wood Psychiatric Clinic in 1957-1958, using USH funds and a grant from the Ministry of Health.
The USH also oversaw the School of Nursing, established in 1944 by the four Voluntary Hospitals; the School of Orthoptics, established in 1951; the School of Physiotherapy, established in 1949; and the School of Radiography, established by the merged Royal Sheffield Infirmary and Hospital in 1941.
The USH was abolished at the reorganisation of the NHS in 1974 when Sheffield Area Health Authority (Teaching) was established as one of the health areas within the new Trent Regional Health Authority. |
Description | Records including those of related organisations:
Board of Governors NHS28/1/1 Minutes, 1948 - 1952 NHS28/1/2 Annual reports, 1948 - 1974 NHS28/1/3 Board papers, 1950 - 1968
Committees and Sub-committees NHS28/2/1 Establishment Committee, 1948 - 1967 NHS28/2/2 Finance Committee and Administrative Committee, 1948 - 1952 NHS28/2/3 Finance and General Purposes Committee, 1971 - 1974 NHS28/2/4 Grounds and Gardens Sub-committee, 1948 - 1966 NHS28/2/5 Special Committees, 1950 - 1973 NHS28/2/6 Anaesthetic Services Sub-committee, 1958 - 1964 NHS28/2/7 Cortisone Committee, 1951 - 1954 NHS28/2/8 Laboratory Service Sub-committee, 1949 - 1974 NHS28/2/9 Medical Advisory / Medical Committee, 1948 - 1973
Chaplaincy NHS28/3/1 Chaplain's reports, 1922 - 1950 NHS28/3/2 Registers of baptisms, 1960 - 1986 NHS28/3/3 Register of confirmations, 1959 - 1969 NHS28/3/4 Registers of services, 1960 - 1997
Land and Buildings NHS28/4/1 Norton Hospital Estate, 1924 - 1950 NHS28/4/2 Tenders, 1960 - 1973 NHS28/4/3 Development, 1965 - 1981
Finance NHS28/5/1 Cash books, 1944 - 1953 NHS28/5/2 Annual accounts, 1962 - 1973 NHS28/5/3 Talbot Cuff Convalescent Fund, 1949 - 1954
School of Nursing NHS28/6/1 Minutes, 1943 - 1951
School of Orthoptics NHS28/7/1 Minutes, 1941 - 1977
School of Physiotherapy NHS28/8/1 Minutes, 1948 - 1964 NHS28/8/2 Students' agreements, 1949 - 1962 NHS28/8/3 Mounted photographs, 1949 - 1975 NHS28/8/4 Loose photographs, 1949 - 1956 NHS28/8/5 Photograph albums, 1950 - 1959
School of Radiography NHS28/9/1 Minutes, 1941 - 1976
Sheffield Voluntary Hospitals NHS28/10/1 Standing Committee, 1924 - 1942 NHS28/10/2 Staff Club, 1935 - 1939 NHS28/10/3 National Insurance Act, 1911 - 1912 NHS28/10/4 Royal Sheffield Infirmary and Hospital, 1938 - 1940
Sheffield Joint Consultative and Advisory Hospitals Council NHS28/11/1 Constitution, 1925 NHS28/11/2 Minutes, 1925 - 1929 NHS28/11/3 Reports, 1938 - 1939 NHS28/11/4 Finance, 1924 - 1925 NHS28/11/5 Agreements, 1922
Sheffield and District Association of Hospital Contributors NHS28/12/1 Minutes, 1924 - 1929
Sheffield Hospital Sunday Fund NHS28/13/1 Minutes, 1897 - 1919 NHS28/13/2 Administrative papers, 1912 - 1964
Million Pound Appeal Fund NHS28/14/1 Administrative papers, 1938 - 1971 NHS28/14/2 Finance, 1937 - 1974
Other records (unlisted):
(Acc. 2010/77) United Sheffield Hospitals accounts ledger, Jul 1948 - Mar 1956 . |
CustodialHistory | Prior to April 1986 the records previously numbered SY333 were held by the former South Yorkshire County Record Office. The Bh numeration is that assigned to some documents formerly held by the University of Sheffield; these and other archives were gathered together by Dr Harold Swan, formerly consultant haematologist at the Royal Infirmary and the Royal Hallamshire Hospital, whose valuable work is duly acknowledged. |