STHC-L: The Science, Technology and Health Care Archives Forum

Hospital Records Database (UK)

• Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2000 13:02:53 -0800 (Pacific Standard Time)
• To: sthc-l@library.ucla.edu
• From: Russell A. Johnson <rjohnson@library.ucla.edu>
• Subject: Hospital Records Database (UK)
• Message-ID: SIMEON.10002111353.B@bio-s-his004.library.ucla.edu

Forwarded to STHC-L from CADUCEUS-L.

Apparently one may search for initial/truncated portions of words as 
well as full keywords; for example, searching for "nerv" in the 
"Hospital Name" index retrieves 22 records for hospitals with "Nerve" 
or "Nervous" (in fact, the use of a wildcard such as "nerv*" or "nerv#" 
does not work).  Looking at these records I'm amazed at--and grateful 
for--the staggering compilation job the project team undertook.

Russell Johnson


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Date: Mon, 7 Feb 2000 20:02:36 -0000
From: Lesley Hall <lesleyah@primex.co.uk>
Subject: Hospital Records Database
To: Caduceus <caduceus-L@list.umaryland.edu>, H-SCI-MED-TECH 
<H-SCI-MED-TECH@H-NET.MSU.EDU>
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The following information may be of interest to list members:

Hosprec, the joint Wellcome/Public Record Office Hospital 
Records Database, which has over 2800 entries for hospitals in the UK, 
is now available for online searching by name and town, at 
http://hospitalrecords.pro.gov.uk/ and via the Wellcome Library 
website, http://www.wellcome.ac.uk/library. The information in the 
database, which deals mainly with  records in local authority or other 
record offices or administered by health authority archivists, includes 
what administrative and clinical records survive, for what date-span, 
where they are held, and what finding aids are in existence, and 
historical and administrative details. The database is constantly being 
updated. Researchers interested in more complex searching
should contact the Contemporary Medical Archives Centre at the Wellcome 
Library, phone 020-7611-8483/6,  fax 020 7611-8703,  e-mail 
cmac@wellcome.ac.uk ,or by post at 183 Euston Road London NW1 2BE, 
England UK.

Lesley Hall
lesleyah@primex.co.uk
website http://homepages.primex.co.uk/~lesleyah
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Russell A. Johnson        rjohnson@library.ucla.edu