List of NHS regional hospital boards (1947–1974)
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Regional hospital boards were established in 1947 by the National Health Service Act 1946 to administer hospital and specialist services of the National Health Service in England and Wales. Each board was responsible for a number of hospital management committees.
The
regional health authorities
in 1974.
Each board administered a regional hospital area, which was defined in terms of local government units:
urban districts and rural districts
.
Regional hospital area |
Administrative counties
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County boroughs
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Newcastle | Saltburn and Marske-by-the-Sea, and Skelton and Brotton; and the rural districts of Croft, Northallerton, Reeth, Richmond, Startforth and Stokesley )
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Carlisle, Darlington, Gateshead, Middlesbrough, Newcastle upon Tyne, South Shields |
Leeds | East Riding of York, the North Riding of York (except the part in the Newcastle Regional Hospital Area) and West Riding of York (except the part in the Sheffield Regional Hospital Area) | Bradford, Dewsbury, Halifax, Huddersfield, Kingston upon Hull, Leeds, Wakefield, York |
Sheffield | Thorne and Wortley )
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East Anglian | Cambridge, Huntingdon, Isle of Ely, Norfolk, Soke of Peterborough, East Suffolk, West Suffolk, part of Essex (the borough of Saffron Walden and the rural district of Saffron Walden), part of Hertford the urban district of Royston), part of Lincoln, Parts of Kesteven (the borough of Stamford; the urban district of Bourne; and the rural district of South Kesteven), part of Rutland (rural district of Ketton) | Great Yarmouth, Ipswich, Norwich |
North-West Metropolitan | Easthampstead and Windsor, part of Buckingham (the borough of Slough; the urban districts of Beaconsfield and Eton; and the rural district of Eton, part of London (metropolitan boroughs of Hampstead, Holborn, Islington, St Marylebone and St Pancras, and the northern part of the Hammersmith, the northern part of Kensington, the northern part of Paddington, the northern part of Westminster
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North-East Metropolitan | Essex (except the part in the East Anglian Regional Hospital Area), Part of Hertford (the borough of Hertford; the urban districts of Bishop's Stortford, Cheshunt, Hoddesdon, Sawbridgeworth and Ware; and the rural districts of Braughing, Hertford and Ware), part of Middlesex (the boroughs of Edmonton and Tottenham; and the urban district of Enfield), part of London (City of London, Inner Temple, Middle Temple, and Bethnal Green, Finsbury, Hackney, Poplar, Shoreditch, Stepney and Stoke Newington) | East Ham, Southend-on-Sea and West Ham |
South-East Metropolitan | Kent, Sussex, East, part of London (Bermondsey, Camberwell, Deptford, Greenwich, Lewisham, Southwark, Woolwich, the eastern part of the Metropolitan Borough of Lambeth, | Brighton, Canterbury, Eastbourne, Hastings |
South-West Metropolitan | New Sarum and Wilton; and the rural districts of Amesbury, Mere and Tisbury and Salisbury and Wilton), part of the London (Battersea,[a] Chelsea, Fulham, Wandsworth, the southern part of the Hammersmith the southern the part of the Kensington the western part of the Lambeth, the southern part of the Paddington, the southern part of the Westminster
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Bournemouth, Croydon, Portsmouth, and Southampton |
Oxford | Berks (except the part in the North-West Metropolitan Regional Hospital Area), Buckingham (except the part in the North-West Metropolitan Regional Hospital Area), Northampton, Oxford, part of Gloucester (urban district of Cirencester; and the rural districts of Cirencester, North Cotswold and Northleach), part of Wilts (boroughs of Marlborough and Swindon; and the rural districts of Cricklade and Wootton Bassett, Highworth, Marlborough and Ramsbury and Pewsey) | Northampton, Oxford and Reading |
South-Western | Cornwall, Devon, Gloucester, Somerset and Wilts (except the parts in the South-West Metropolitan Regional Hospital Area and the Oxford Regional Hospital Area), part of Dorset (borough of Lyme Regis), Isles of Scilly | Bath, Bristol, Exeter, Gloucester and Plymouth |
Welsh | The whole of Wales and the administrative county of Monmouth | Newport |
Birmingham | Hereford, Salop, Stafford, Warwick and Worcester | Birmingham, Burton upon Trent, Coventry, Dudley, Smethwick, Stoke-on-Trent, Walsall, West Bromwich, Wolverhampton, and Worcester |
Manchester | rural district of Chapel-en-le-Frith )
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Barrow-in-Furness, Blackburn, Blackpool, Bolton, Burnley, Bury, Manchester, Oldham, Preston, Rochdale, Salford, Stockport and Wigan |
Liverpool | Part of Chester (borough of Bebington; the urban districts of Ellesmere Port, Hoylake, Hoole, Lymm, Neston, Runcorn, and Wirral; and the rural districts of Chester, Runcorn and Tarvin,[b] part of Lancaster (boroughs of Crosby and Widnes; the urban districts of Formby, Golborne, Haydock, Huyton with Roby, Litherland, Newton-le-Willows, Ormskirk, Prescot, Rainford and Skelmersdale; and the rural districts of Warrington, West Lancashire and Whiston | Birkenhead, Bootle, Chester, Liverpool, St Helens, Southport, Wallasey and Warrington |
- ^ The eastern part of the metropolitan Borough of Bermondsey was transferred from the South-West Metropolitan to the South-East Metropolitan Regional Hospital Area 1958
- ^ a b The civil parish of Tarporley was transferred from Liverpool Regional Hospital Area to the Manchester Regional Hospital Area in 1956.
In 1965 a new Wessex Regional Hospital Area was formed from the western part of the South-West Metropolitan Hospital Area:
Regional Hospital Area |
Administrative counties
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County boroughs
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Wessex | ) | Bournemouth, Portsmouth and Southampton |
At the same time the Welsh Regional Hospital Area was redesignated as the Welsh Hospital Area, and the Regional Hospital Board became the Welsh Hospital Board.
Sources
- National Health Service (Determination of Regional Hospital Areas) Order, 1946 (S.I.1946/2158)
- National Health Service (Determination of Regional Hospital Areas) Amendment Order, 1958 (S.I. 1958/2093)
- National Health Service (Determination of Regional Hospital Areas) Amendment Order, 1958 (S.I. 1958/2093)
- National Health Service (Regional Hospital Areas) Order 1965 (S.I. 1965/527)