Leeds Regional Hospital Board Circulars
Level of description
Fonds
Reference code
A.2003.1
Date
2/1/1952-19/7/1971
Extent and medium
1 folder containing 3 ringbinders
Scope and content
Circulars produced by Leeds Regional Hospital Board, from 1952 and 1970-1971. Both sets of circulars are numbered and in date order; the 1952 circulars also contain an index.
Subjects from the 1952 circulars include arrangements for psychiatric services in remand homes, copy of memorandum of agreement relating to increases in the rates of pay of engineering employees, reports on misuse of hospital services, announcement from the National Joint Industry Council proposing a review of wages for the building industry, notice from Leeds Local Joint Committee announcing summer working hours for the building industry, memorandum announcing a review of gradings of hospital medical and dental staff, copy of schedule proposing changes to registrars in West Yorkshire, memorandum from the Dewsbury, Batley and Mirfield Hospital Management Committee of recommendations with regard to the use of drugs and dressings, correspondence relating to the use of blood by the National Health Service and details of decentralisation proposals for Leeds Regional Hospital Board blood transfusion service, letter asking hospitals to supply details of their dietaries and costs to Leeds Regional Hospital Board, copy of memorandum titled 'Toxic Chemicals in Agriculture', requests for information regarding visits to children in hospitals, correspondence relating to the methods of recovering silver from fixing baths and used X-ray films, table showing the distribution of income from the Hospital Endowment Fund in 1952, requests for observations from hospitals relating to protective clothing for laundry workers, report of the meeting of the General Purposes Committee of the Board with representatives of the Hospital, Local Authority and General Practitioner Services held in November 1952, copy of statement by Sheffield Regional Hospital Board relating to joint contracting for hospital supplies and the use of drugs and dressings in hospitals, correspondence relating to cases of smallpox, copy of a report of proceedings at a conference organised by the Geriatrics Committee at the offices of the regional hospital board in 1952.
Subjects from the 1971 circulars (numbered 1-120) include a copy of the report titled 'Basic Training for Porters: A Summary of the Deliberations and Recommendations of a Working Party of the Yorkshire Branch of the National Association and Guild of Hospital Head Porters on a proposed group training scheme for the hosptials in the Leeds area', correspondence from Department of Health and Social Security regarding the practicability of negotiating a contract to provide a pyrogen testing quality control service in hospitals, copy of a contract issued to hospitals for stores purchases, application form for staff employed in special clinics to attend a postgraduate course on special clinics, copy of paper by Ministry of Health titled 'The Treatment and Supervision of Heroin Addiction (issued in 1968), copy of a report of an advisory group on automatic equipment for biochemistry and haematology, copy of the Leeds Regional Hospital Board review of hospital laboratory services, notification of the increase in the price of coal by the National Coal Board, memorandum regarding changes to the hours of duty for hospital nursing and midwifery staff in 1971, draft copy of memorandum relating to personal payment allowances given to patients in psychiatric hospitals.
Subjects from the 1952 circulars include arrangements for psychiatric services in remand homes, copy of memorandum of agreement relating to increases in the rates of pay of engineering employees, reports on misuse of hospital services, announcement from the National Joint Industry Council proposing a review of wages for the building industry, notice from Leeds Local Joint Committee announcing summer working hours for the building industry, memorandum announcing a review of gradings of hospital medical and dental staff, copy of schedule proposing changes to registrars in West Yorkshire, memorandum from the Dewsbury, Batley and Mirfield Hospital Management Committee of recommendations with regard to the use of drugs and dressings, correspondence relating to the use of blood by the National Health Service and details of decentralisation proposals for Leeds Regional Hospital Board blood transfusion service, letter asking hospitals to supply details of their dietaries and costs to Leeds Regional Hospital Board, copy of memorandum titled 'Toxic Chemicals in Agriculture', requests for information regarding visits to children in hospitals, correspondence relating to the methods of recovering silver from fixing baths and used X-ray films, table showing the distribution of income from the Hospital Endowment Fund in 1952, requests for observations from hospitals relating to protective clothing for laundry workers, report of the meeting of the General Purposes Committee of the Board with representatives of the Hospital, Local Authority and General Practitioner Services held in November 1952, copy of statement by Sheffield Regional Hospital Board relating to joint contracting for hospital supplies and the use of drugs and dressings in hospitals, correspondence relating to cases of smallpox, copy of a report of proceedings at a conference organised by the Geriatrics Committee at the offices of the regional hospital board in 1952.
Subjects from the 1971 circulars (numbered 1-120) include a copy of the report titled 'Basic Training for Porters: A Summary of the Deliberations and Recommendations of a Working Party of the Yorkshire Branch of the National Association and Guild of Hospital Head Porters on a proposed group training scheme for the hosptials in the Leeds area', correspondence from Department of Health and Social Security regarding the practicability of negotiating a contract to provide a pyrogen testing quality control service in hospitals, copy of a contract issued to hospitals for stores purchases, application form for staff employed in special clinics to attend a postgraduate course on special clinics, copy of paper by Ministry of Health titled 'The Treatment and Supervision of Heroin Addiction (issued in 1968), copy of a report of an advisory group on automatic equipment for biochemistry and haematology, copy of the Leeds Regional Hospital Board review of hospital laboratory services, notification of the increase in the price of coal by the National Coal Board, memorandum regarding changes to the hours of duty for hospital nursing and midwifery staff in 1971, draft copy of memorandum relating to personal payment allowances given to patients in psychiatric hospitals.
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Language
English
Corporate name
Leeds Regional Hospital Board
National Health Service
Ministry of Health
National Joint Industry Council
Sheffield Regional Hospital Board
National Health Service
Ministry of Health
National Joint Industry Council
Sheffield Regional Hospital Board