Reference
NHS
Title
National Health Service (except hospitals) and some of its predecessors
Date free text
c. 1913 onwards
Production date
From: 1913
Admin/biog history
The history of the National Health Service in Bedfordshire is complicated as the organisation has undergone many restructures.
The following is an attempt at explaining this, but it may not be complete or accurate.
From 1948 until c. 1974 there was a North West Metropolitan Regional Hospital Board. Within Bedfordshire there was a Bedford Group of Hopsitals and a Luton & Hitchin Group Hospital Management Committee.
1973/74 Bedfordshire Executive Council becomes the Family Practitioner Committee.
1974-1982 Bedfordshire had its own Area Health Authority. The Bedford Group of Hospitals appears to have been succeeded by the Bedfordshire Area Health Authority Northern District and the Luton & Hitchin Group HMC was succeeded in part by the Bedfordshire Area Health Authority Southern District.
1981/2 Bedfordshire Area Health Authority was split into the North Bedfordshire Health Authority and the South Bedfordshire Health Authority.
July 1990 The Family Practitioner Committee ended and the Family Health Service Authority began.
Sept 1990 The North Bedfordshire Health Authority was newly constituted holding its first meeting on 17 September 1990.
1994 The north and south health authorities joined with the Bedfordshire Family Service Authority to become Bedfordshire Health Authority.
1996 Bedfordshire District Health Authority joined with the Bedfordshire Family Health Authority to create a single commissioning body.
2000s Bedfordshire (without Luton) became a Primary Care Trust. It then joined with Luton PTC.
2010s Abolished the strategic health services and introduced integrated care systems; Bedfordshire, Luton and Milton Keynes Integrated Care Board.
Scope and Content
This reference NHS is used for all deposited archive material relating to the operations and administrations of the Health Service except those relating specifically to Hospitals.
Where relevant it includes archives relating to predecessor bodies and organisations responsible for administration of health prior to the creation of the National Health Service in 1948.
System of arrangement
Where records are those of a distinct authority those records are under the reference for that authority. For general continuing things such as estate, photographs, plans and registers references are allocated regardless of the health authority structure.
Level of description
fonds