Collection HGH - NURSING: Hither Green Hospital student nurse records

Key Information

Reference code

HGH

Title

NURSING: Hither Green Hospital student nurse records

Date(s)

  • 1955-1967 (Creation)

Level of description

Collection

Extent

2 volumes

Scope and content

Registers of student nurses at Hither Green Hospital, 1955-1967, including names, personal details, dates of training, ward allocation and examination results.

System of arrangement

Chronological

General Information

Name of creator

Biographical history

The Park Fever Hospital, at Hither Green, South East London, opened 1897. Its name was changed in 1957 to Hither Green Hospital. The hospital closed in 1997. Student nurses at Hither Green Hospital appear to have worked at St John's Hospital, Lewisham, ... »

Custodial history

Transferred from the Florence Nightingale School of Nursing and Midwifery, 1999/2000.

Conditions governing access

Administrative records are generally closed for 20 years except for published material and some committee and other minutes.

Files containing personal data are closed for 80 years and sensitive personal data for 100 years from the date of the most recent ... »

Conditions governing reproduction

Copies, subject to the condition of the original, may be supplied from open material for research purposes only.

Requests to publish original material should be submitted to the Archives.

Language of material

  • English

Finding aids

This Summary Guide and a Detailed catalogue in which this collection is item 1 available on-line and in hard copy in the College Archives reading room, King's College London.

Related materials

King's College London Archives holds student nurse records of: St Thomas's Hospital, [1950-1980] (Ref:GB0100 KCLCA TH/SN/FP); King's College Hospital School of Nursing, 1885-1998 (Ref:GB0100 KCLCA KH/NL & K/NI/PR); Dulwich Hospital, 1917-1967 (Ref:GB0... »

People and Organisations

Rules and/or conventions used

Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000.

Archivist's note

Sources: Online Public Records Office Hospital Records Database http://hospitalrecords.pro.gov.uk; Compiled by Alison Field