Sources Guides list

Sources Guide: Hospitals: Policy and History

For information on materials relating to specific hospitals, see sources guides for Hospitals: Individual: London, Hospitals: Individual: UK and Ireland excluding London, Hospitals: Military and Naval and Hospitals: Overseas. For psychiatric hospitals, see Psychiatry: Institutions. The Wellcome / National Archives Hospital Records Database provides information on the survival and location of hospital records throughout the UK.

Further information about the materials mentioned below can be found on the Archives and Manuscripts Online Catalogue

In some cases the full detailed catalogues of archive collections are not yet in this online database: hard copy versions are available in the Rare Materials Room of the Library and on request to archs+mss@wellcome.ac.uk

Association of Health and Residential Care Officers (f. 1898 as National Association of Workhouse Masters and Matrons, diss. 1984): Members worked in residential care institutions and hospital administration SA/AHR

Sir Francis Avery–Jones: articles and some correspondence on hospitals administration, 1953-96 GC/198

British Health Care Arts Centre: encouraging the development of the arts in hospitals and other institutions, 1984–93 SA/BHC

British Medical Association: Dealt with various issues concerning doctors in hospitals: section E relates specifically to hospitals and policies regarding staffing, payments, etc, c.1920-53 SA/BMA

'Doctors and Nurses: Allies or Adversaries': Transcripts of 162 interviews with medical and nursing staff for a study on inter-professional relations between doctors and nurses (covering characteristics of good/bad staff, responsibility for medical decisions, training etc), 1989-90 GC/249

'Doctors and the Development of Hospital Computer Systems: A Case Study': Tapes of 51 interviews with consultants, junior doctors and nursing staff on the impact of a computer-based medical records system on clinical processes within an outpatients clinic, and the responses of doctors to the system, 1982-5 GC/248

European Hospitals/Health Services Survey: Joint research project comparing input and outcome of health services, initially based on 'study hospitals' in 8 different European centres, 1980-9 GC/191

Hospital Infection Society (f.1979): Records of society of medical microbiologists which investigates and advises on aspects of infection in hospitals SA/HIS

Medical Women's Federation (f. 1916): Historical material on hospitals founded by women; hospital appointments for women, questions of status and career advancement for women in hospitals, 1909, 1920s-90s SA/MWF

Military Hospital Society: Minute book, 1764-7 MS.5404

National Birthday Trust Fund (f.1928): Correspondence with hospitals and maternity homes receiving donations, 1928-53 and using gas or air apparatus 1937-42, research projects etc at Queen Charlotte's Hospital 1930s-50s and University College Hospital 1960s SA/NBT

Nation's Fund for Nursing: Archives include records of the British Women's Hospital Committee, 1915-20 SA/NFN

Patients’ Association: Material relating to services and patient care in both NHS and private hospitals and issues affecting patients such as hygiene, standards of nursing care, the doctor-patient relationship, catering, waiting lists, post-surgical care, using patients in teaching hospital, etc, c. 1970s–90s: sections C and D in particular SA/PAT

John Bowlby: his work with James Robertson on children in hospital, 1950s PP/BOW

Professor Cyril Chantler: ‘Guy’s Hospital: A Case Study, 1985-1988’: report on period of major management changes MS.8610

Sir (William) Allen Daley: materials relating to hospitals mainly in relation to public health administration, 1920s-60s PP/AWD

Rudolph Karl and Gerda Freudenberg: material relating to RKF’s involvement with King Edward’s Hospital Fund, 1950s-70s, work at Dept of Health and Social Security, 1960s-70s etc, and papers on GF’s work with Council for Music in Hospitals, 1970s PP/RKF

Sir George Godber: Draft and published lectures, articles and cartoons on hospitals and the NHS, 1942-95 GC/201

James Randal Hutchinson and William Henry Bradley, of the Ministry of Health: Files on epidemiological and public health matters, including sanitation and infection control in hospitals, 1934-59 PP/JRH

Sydney George Holland, Viscount Knutsford: 3 letters on aseptic procedures in hospitals, 1926 GC/79

Florence Nightingale: see Florence Nightingale: A guide to sources in the Wellcome Institute Library

Sir George White Pickering: reports and correspondence re survey on medical education for the Nuffield Provincial Hospitals Trust, 1970s PP/GWP

Cicely Delphine Williams: Material re community health services in the developing world 1932-87, with especial relevance to maternal and child health and the training of personnel PP/CDW

Occupational health in hospitals: Papers re Kensington, Chelsea and Westminster HA working party; tape-slides presentations on staff occupational health and hazards in hospitals, 1970s GC/136

Wellcome archives: Archives of the Historical Medical Museum, 1899-1985, include material on the history of hospitals in general and of individual hospitals WA/HMM