With the establishment of the NHS, the Department of Health for Scotland created five Regional Hospital Boards to administer Scottish hospitals on a regional basis. Hospitals in the Lothian area, as well as Fife and the Borders, were administered by the South Eastern Regional Hospital Board. Each regional hospital board then created local hospital boards of management to organise services at a local level.
The South Eastern Regional Hospital Board appointed the following eleven Group Boards of Management in 1948:
[Where text appears in blue, this is a link to a collection of records held by LHSA.]
Group Board of Management |
Hospitals and Services Controlled |
East Lothian Hospitals Board of Management (1948-1974) |
Alderston Convalescent Home, Haddington |
Belhaven Hospital, Dunbar |
Dunbar Cottage Hospital |
East Fortune Hospital, North Berwick |
Edington Cottage Hospital, North Berwick |
Haddington Smallpox Hospital |
Herdmanflat Hospital, Haddington (from 1948-1957 Herdmanflat Hospital was part of the Rosslynlee and Haddington Mental Hospitals Board of Management) |
Knoll Maternity Hospital, Duns (until 1955)* |
Polish Convalescent Home, Luffness, Aberlady |
Roodlands General Hospital, Haddington |
Vert Memorial Hospital, Haddington |
Whitchester Cottage Hospital, Duns (until 1955)* |
* after which they were transferred to the Board of Management of the Borders Hospitals |
Edinburgh Central Hospitals Board of Management (1948-1970) |
Chalmers Hospital |
Edinburgh Foot Clinic and School of Chiropody |
Edinburgh Orthopaedic Clinic |
Hospital for Diseases of Women (closed 1951 and amalgamated with Chalmers Hospital) |
Princess Margaret Rose Orthopaedic Hospital |
Royal Edinburgh Hospital for Sick Children |
Edinburgh Convalescent Group Board of Management (1948-1974) |
Astley Ainslie Hospital |
Edenhall Hospital |
Other associated hospitals (information taken from Smith, C. Between the Streamlet and the Town, (1988), individual hospitals are not named. |
Edinburgh Northern Hospitals Board of Management (1948-1974) |
Eastern General Hospital |
Leith Hospital |
Musselburgh Maternity Hospital |
Northern General Hospital |
Royal Edinburgh Hospital for Sick Children (from 1970) |
Western General Hospital |
Edinburgh Royal Victoria and Associated Hospitals Board of Management (1948-1974) |
City Hospital |
Edinburgh Foot Clinic and School of Chiropody (from 1970) |
Edinburgh Orthopaedic Clinic (from 1970) |
Loanhead Hospital |
Princess Margaret Rose Hospital (from 1970) |
Royal Victoria Dispensary for Diseases of the Chest |
Royal Victoria Hospital |
Southfield Hospital |
Edinburgh Southern Hospitals Board of Management (1948-1974) |
Bruntsfield Hospital |
Deaconess Hospital |
Elsie Inglis Memorial Maternity Hospital |
Liberton Hospital |
Longmore Hospital |
Gogarburn Hospital Board of Management (1948-1969) |
Gogarburn Hospital |
Rosslynlee Mental Hospital Group Board of Management (1948-1957) |
Herdmanflat Hospital |
Rosslynlee Hospital |
Royal Edinburgh and Associated Hospitals Board of Management (1948-1974) |
Gogarburn Hospital (from 1969) |
Marchhall Nursing Home |
Rosslynlee Hospital (from 1957) |
Royal Edinburgh Hospital (including clinics) |
Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh and Associated Hospitals Board of Management (1948-1974) |
Beechmount Hospital (see Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh) |
Chalmers Hospital (from 1970) |
Child Welfare Clinic, Windsor Street |
Corstorphine Hospital |
Edinburgh Dental Hospital and School |
Eye Ear and Throat Infirmary (until 1969) |
Hearing Aid Centre, Cambridge Street |
Princess Alexandra Eye Pavilion (from 1969, incorporating Orthoptic Clinic, School Eye Service and Artificial Eye Fitting Centre, Cambridge Street) |
Queen Mary Maternity Home (see Edinburgh Royal Maternity Hospital and Simpson Memorial Maternity Pavilion) |
Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh |
Seamen's Dispensary, Leith |
Edinburgh Royal Maternity Hospital and Simpson Memorial Maternity Pavilion |
West Lothian Hospitals Board of Management (1948-1974) |
Bangour General Hospital |
Bangour Village Hospital |
Bo’ness Hospital |
Drumshoreland Hospital |
St Michael’s Hospital |
Tippethill Hospital |