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SAINT GEORGE'S HOSPITAL GROUP


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): H68

Held at: London Metropolitan Archives

Title: SAINT GEORGE'S HOSPITAL GROUP

Date(s): 1733-1998

Level of description: Collection

Extent: 17.27 linear metres

Name of creator(s): Atkinson Morley Hospital | Wimbledon
Bolingbroke Hospital | Battersea
Grove Fever Hospital x Grove Hospital | Tooting
St George's Hospital | London
Victoria Hospital for Children | Chelsea x South Western Hospital for Children

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

Saint George's Hospital Teaching Group was formed in 1948 following the establishment of the National Health Service (NHS). Originally, the group included Saint George's Hospital, Atkinson Morley Hospital, Royal Dental Hospital, Victoria Hospital for Children, Broadstairs Convalescent Home and Princess Beatrice Hospital. However, Broadstairs Convalescent Home and Princess Beatrice Hospital were quickly transferred to alternative administrative bodies. In 1949, it was decided that Saint George's Hospital would be rebuilt on the Grove Fever Hospital and the Fountain Hospital sites in Tooting. The Grove Fever Hospital was designated to Saint George's Hospital in 1953 and building on the new hospital began in 1973.

Following the reorganisation of the NHS in 1974, Saint George's Hospital Teaching Group was disbanded. Saint George's Hospital passed to the Merton, Sutton and Wandsworth Health Authority and was to be directly managed by a District Management Team. The District also included Atkinson Morley Hospital, South London Hospital for Women, Weir Hospital, Saint Benedict's Hospital, Birchlands, Springfield Hospital, Saint James' Hospital, Bolingbroke Hospital, and the Springfield Annex in Kingston.

In 1982, Saint George's was brought under the control of the Wandsworth Health Authority. Shortly after, Weir Hospital, South London Hospital for Women, Saint Benedict's Hospital and Springfield Annex were closed. Birchlands was amalgamated with the Hospital for Aged Jews, and Saint James Hospital in Balham closed in 1988 when the Saint James' Wing at Saint George's Hospital opened.

In 1993, Saint George's Hospital, Atkinson Morley Hospital and Bolingbroke Hospital became part of the Saint George's Healthcare NHS Trust. Bolingbroke Hospital closed in 2008 and its services transferred to Saint John's Therapy Centre, Battersea. Atkinson Morley Hospital's neurology services were relocated to Saint George's, Tooting in 2003, however the Wolfson Neurorehabilitation Centre remained in Wimbledon. In 2010, Saint George's Healthcare NHS Trust merged with Community Services Wandsworth. In 2011, the trust ran Saint George's Hospital, Tooting; Wolfson Neurorehabilitation Centre; and range of services at Queen Mary's Hospital, Roehampton. It also provided community services from Saint John's Therapy Centre, Wandsworth Prison, Dawes House intermediate care unit, health centres and clinics, schools and nurseries and patients' homes.

For histories of each hospital, please see individual entries in the catalogue.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Records of hospitals in, or affiliated to, the Saint George's Hospital Group, comprising Atkinson Morley Hospital, Bolingbroke Hospital, Grove Hospital, Saint George's Hospital and Victoria Hospital for Children. Includes patients' records, staff records, and Board of Governors minutes.

Administrative, financial and other records remain uncatalogued as of February 2012. Please see staff for further details.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English.

System of arrangement:

These records are arranged as follows:
H68/AM Atkinson Morley Hospital
H68/BL Bolingbroke Hospital
H68/GR Grove Hospital
H68/SG Saint George's Hospital
H68/VC Victoria Hospital for Children.

The records are then arranged according to a classification scheme for hospital records: Patients' records (B), Staff records (C), Chaplain (G).

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 1996, 2005 and 2007.

ALLIED MATERIALS

Related material:

For administrative bodies, please see South West Metropolitan Regional Hospital Board (LMA/4431/A), South West Thames Regional Health Authority (LMA/4431/B), and South Thames Regional Health Authority (HA/ST).

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: February 2012.


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Hospital administration | Hospitals | Health services
Hospital chaplains | Chaplains | Clergy | Religious groups
Hospital patients | People by roles | People
Hospital staff | Medical personnel | Medical profession | Medical sciences
Medical registers | Medical records | Documents | Information sources
Medical institutions
Personnel
Primary documents

Personal names

Corporate names
Atkinson Morley Hospital | Wimbledon
St George's Hospital | London

Places