The NHS in Lothian

South Eastern Regional Hospital Board (1948-1974)

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.

Records of the South Eastern Regional Hospital Board

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

 

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