| Administrative History | When the National Health service was established in 1948 hospital services in Derbyshire came under the auspices of the Sheffield Regional Hospital Board. This Board covered the administrative counties of West Yorkshire, Derby (except that part included in the Manchester Regional Hospital Area), Leicester, parts of Lincoln, Nottingham and Rutland. For minutes & reports of the Sheffield Regional Hospital Board, 1947 - 1974, see D4556.
Below the Regional Hospital Board there were Hospital Management Committees. In Derbyshire there were initially five, viz:
Chesterfield Hospital Management Committee (the hospitals in this group were Chesterfield Royal; Scarsdale; Penmore; Ashgate Annexe; Morton Infectious diseases; Ashgate Maternity Home; Whittington Hall; Walton; and Ashgate Rehabilitation Centre). For minutes of the Chesterfield Hospital Management Committee see D4555.
Derby No. 1 Hospital Management Committee (the hospitals in this group were Derbyshire Royal Infirmary; Derby City; St Oswalds, Ashbourne; The Grove, Shardlow; The Manor (formerly Boundary House); Ashbourne Maternity Home, Darley Hall Maternity Home; Holbrook Maternity Home; Nightingale Maternity Home; Queen Mary Maternity Home; Bretby Hall Orthopaedic; Derbyshire Children's; Derbyshire Hospital for Women; and Etwall.
Derby No.2 Hospital Management Committee (the hospitals in this group were Ripley & District Cottage; Victoria Memorial Cottage; Whitworth; Babington, Belper; Smedley Memorial; Parwich; Wirksworth Maternity; Ridgeway; Draycott; and Derwent. Note this group was disbanded in 1966 and all the hospitals (except Victoria Memorial Cottage, Whitworth, Smedley Memorial and Ridgeway) were transferred to the No 1 Committee. The remaining four hospitals were transferred to the Chesterfield Committee.
Derby No. 3 Hospital Management Committee (the only hospital in this group was The Pastures, Mickleover)
Derby No. 4 Hospital Management Committee (the hospitals in this group were the Kingsway and Makeney House, Milford)
In 1974 with the Reorganisation of the Health Service Act all the Hospital Management Committees were disbanded. Hospital services in the county were coordinated by the Derbyshire Area Health Authority of which there were three districts, viz:
North Derbyshire - covering the District of the High Peak (less Tintwistle Rural Deanery, Glossop Metropolitan Borough and part of Chapel-en-le-Frith Rural Deanery), Chesterfield, Bolsover, North East Derbyshire and part of West Derbyshire (Bakewell Urban and Rural Districts and Matlock Urban District).
Central Derbyshire - covering the district of Amber Valley, Erewash and part of west Derbyshire (Ashbourne Urban and Rural Districts and Wirksworth Urban District)
South Derbyshire - covering the Districts of Derby and South Derbyshire. |
| Custodial History | These records were deposited from 1976 onwards. Records accessioned in 2003 remain unlisted (see D1593/UL) |