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HENDON GROUP


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): H16

Held at: London Metropolitan Archives

Title: HENDON GROUP

Date(s): 1928-1975

Level of description: Collection

Extent: 18.2 linear metres

Name of creator(s): Hendon Group Hospital Management Committee
Bushey Maternity Hospital xx Middlesex County Maternity Hospital | 1938-1948
Edgware General Hospital | 1948- xx Redhill Hospital | 1927-1930 xx Redhill County Hospital | 1930-1948
Hendon District Hospital

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

Edgware General Hospital was originally known as Redhill Hospital and was built by Hendon Board of Guardians in December 1927. It was taken over by Middlesex County Council on 1 April 1930 who renamed it Redhill County Hospital. The hospital became part of the National Health Service in 1948 and came under the control of the North West Metropolitan Regional Hospital Board and Hendon Group Hospital Management Committee. Its name was changed the same year to Edgware General Hospital.

In 1937 Middlesex County Council acquired a newly built private clinic in Heathbourne Road, Bushey Heath, Hertfordshire to be used as a maternity hospital. It opened on 1 January 1938 with 48 beds as Middlesex County Maternity Hospital. It was administered from Redhill County Hospital, now Edgware General Hospital. In 1948 it became part of the National Health Service as one of the Hendon Group of hospitals of the North West Metropolitan Regional Hospital Board. The name of the hospital was changed to Bushey Maternity Hospital. The hospital closed in c 1977.

Hendon District Hospital was founded in 1913 on a site on the corner of Hendon Way and Elliot Road, London NW4. In 1948 the hospital was transferred to the National Health Service and came under the control of the North West Metropolitan Regional Hospital Board as part of the Hendon Group of Hospitals.

Hendon Group Hospital Management Committee was set up in 1948 by the North West Metropolitan Regional Hospital Board to manage the following hospitals and clinics - Edgware General Hospital, Bushey Maternity Hospital, Hendon District Hospital, Colindale Hospital, Hendon Isolation, later West Hendon Hospital, Roxbourne Hospital, Oxhey Grove, Stanmore Cottage Hospital, Harrow Chest Clinic and Edgware Chest Clinic. Hendon Group Hospital Management Committee ceased to exist in 1974 when the National Health Service was reorganised.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Records of the Hendon Group Hospitals, comprising Bushey Maternity Hospital, 1938-1959; Edgware General Hospital, 1928-1958; Hendon District Hospital, 1937-1948 and Hendon Group Hospital Management Committee, 1948-1974. The records include committee minutes, patient registers, case notes, reports, handbooks, photographs, histories and publications.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English

System of arrangement:

H16/BM: Bushey Maternity Hospital, H16/EDG: Edgware General Hospital, H16/HDH: Hendon District Hospital, H16/HG: Hendon Group Hospital Management Committee.

Conditions governing access:

These records are available for public inspection, although records containing personal information are subject to access restrictions under the UK Data Protection Act, 1998

Conditions governing reproduction:

Copyright: Depositor

Physical characteristics:

Fit

Finding aids:

Please see online catalogues at: http://search.lma.gov.uk/opac_lma/index.htm

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

Appraisal, destruction and scheduling information:

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Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

Material received in multiple accessions between 1985 and 1998. (ACC/2071, ACC/2229, ACC/2314, B98/092).

ALLIED MATERIALS

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DESCRIPTION NOTES

Note:

Rules or conventions: Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.

Date(s) of descriptions: February 2009


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Hospital administration | Hospitals | Health services
Medical history | Personal history | History
Medical institutions

Personal names

Corporate names
Bushey Maternity Hospital x Middlesex County Maternity Hospital | 1938-1948
Edgware General Hospital | 1948- x Redhill Hospital | 1927-1930 x Redhill County Hospital | 1930-1948
Hendon District Hospital
Hendon Group Hospital Management Committee
North West Metropolitan Regional Hospital Board

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