IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0074 H66
Held at: London Metropolitan Archives
Title: DARTFORD AND DARENTH HOSPITAL MANAGEMENT COMMITTEE
Date(s): 1949-1974
Level of description: Collection
Extent: 2.3 linear metres
Name of creator(s): Dartford and Darenth Hospital Management Committee
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
Following April 1948 Darenth and Stone Hospital Management Committee was set up as part of the transferral programme of hospitals into the newly created National Health Service (NHS). The hospitals in the group were Stone House Hospital (formerly City of London Mental Hospital), Darenth Park Hospital and Mabledon Hospital.
Re-organisation of the Heath Service in June 1971 led to the amalgamation of Stone House and Mabledon and Darenth Park with the Dartford Hospital Management Committee, to form the Dartford and Darenth Hospital Management Committee. The committee also managed other hospitals including Joyce Green Hospital, Orchard Hospital and Lower Southern Hospital.
The Committee reported to South East Metropolitan Regional Hospital Board. In 1974, Dartford and Gravesham District Health Authority took over control within South East Thames Regional Health Authority.
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Records of the Dartford and Darenth Hospital Management Committee, including Committee and sub-committee minutes (1949-1974), Darenth Park Hospital annual reports submitted to Committee (1957-1959), Secretary's files, photographs and booklet.
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: English
System of arrangement:
Arranged in the following sections: H66/A - ADMINISTRATION; H66/PH - PHOTOGRAPHS; H66/Y - RELATED DOCUMENTATION.
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 to this collection rests with the depositor.
Finding aids:
Please see online catalogues at: http://search.lma.gov.uk/opac_lma/index.htm
ARCHIVAL INFORMATION
Archival history:
Immediate source of acquisition:
Records deposited in 2007 and 2010.
ALLIED MATERIALS
Related material:
See South East Thames Regional Health Authority (HA/SE); City of London Mental Hospital, later Stone House Hospital (CLA/001); Darenth Park Hospital (H61/DA); Joyce Green Hospital (H48); Southern Hospital (H62/SH). Also other group hospitals held at Centre for Kentish Studies.
DESCRIPTION NOTES
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: August to October 2010.