ProjectsRoyal Infirmary of Edinburgh Oral History Project
In May 2019, LHSA Access Officer Louise Neilson began an eight month part time project to conduct and catalogue oral history interviews with people familiar the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh when it based at Lauriston Place. The project was funded by the Edinburgh Futures Institute who will be moving in to the old hospital building in 2021.
Find out more about the project here Wellcome Trust Research Resources projectsWellcome Trust funding has enabled LHSA to preserve and catalogue a selection of our twentieth century folder-based case notes, and supported a cataloguing and conservation project for our UNESCO-awarded HIV/AIDS collections.
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Finding the Right Clinical Notes
This LHSA-led project ran from January 2000 to July 2002, and addressed the problem of providing access to personal health records across Scotland.
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Volunteer projects
Royal Edinburgh Hospital case book indexing A project to create a searchable database of Royal Edinburgh Hospital patient cases.
In collaboration with Royal National Institute of Blind People (Scotland), this project explored what life was like for blind and partially-sighted people in Scotland during the Edwardian period.
NHS Lothian projects
A project collecting oral history testimonies of nurses and creating an art installation combining new artworks with enameled badges from LHSA's historic artefacts collection.
A permanent installation of new artwork alongside original artefacts on display at the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh. Resources
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