Lothian Health Services Archive
The Archive was founded in the late 1960s as the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh Archive, and was housed in the hospital itself. In 1981 it was renamed as the Medical Archive Centre, and it moved into Edinburgh University Library in 1988. It was renamed again in 1996 as Lothian Health Services Archive. The current Archivist is Dr Mike Barfoot.The Archive primarily collects records of long term legal, administrative, epidemiological and historical value produced by the NHS within the Lothian area, including those of predecessor bodies. In addition, non-NHS institutional records and personal papers related to the local history of health care and the history of Scottish medicine are also collected.
The records of 153 collections were put on the Hub during the one-year project period, with more collections to follow in future as they are completed. Currently this represents about 95 per cent of LHSA holdings.The main strengths of the collections are administrative and clinical records of hospitals in the Edinburgh and surrounding area, from 1690 through to the present day. LHSA also holds one of the largest collections of folder-based twentieth century personal health records, covering some 1500 linear metres.
Special feature: Tuberculosis
Address: Lothian Health Services Archive, Edinburgh University Library, George Square, Edinburgh EH8 9LJ
Telephone: 0131 650 3392
Email: lhsa@ed.ac.uk Web: www.lhsa.lib.ed.ac.uk
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- Affleck, James Whigham
- Alderston Convalescent Home
- Alison, William Pulteney
- Anderson, Catherine Euphemia
- Anderson, Mary Leslie
- Association of Master Printers of Scotland
- Astley Ainslie Hospital
- Bangour General Hospital
- Bangour Village Hospital
- Bannatyne, Katie Smith
- Beattie, Isa
- Birrell, Jill
- Bone, John Wardle
- Bruce, Alexander Ninian
- Bruntsfield Hospital and Elsie Inglis Memorial Maternity Hospital
- Bunch, Antonia J.
- Cassels, Jessie Alexandra
- Catford, Edwin Francis
- Centre for Reproductive Biology, University of Edinburgh
- Chalmers Hospital
- Chemist, Edinburgh
- City Hospital
- Clark, Sarah
- Craig, Jean Constance
- Crusaid Scotland: HIV/AIDS
- Cuthbert, Jessie
- Deaconess Hospital
- Dingleton Hospital, Melrose
- Drennan, Alexander Murray
- Duguid, Margaret
- Dunbar Cottage Hospital
- Dunlop, Derrick Melville
- Durham, Sheila
- East Fortune Hospital
- East Lothian Hospitals Board of Management
- Eccleston, Hannah Church
- Edinburgh and Leith Old People's Welfare Council
- Edinburgh and South East Scotland Blood Transfusion Service
- Edinburgh Central Hospitals Board of Management
- Edinburgh Dental Hospital and School
- Edinburgh Foot Clinic and School of Chiropody
- Edinburgh Indian Association
- Edinburgh Lying-in Institution
- Edinburgh Northern Hospitals Board of Management
- Edinburgh Pathological Club
- Edinburgh Royal Maternity Hospital and Simpson Memorial Maternity Pavilion
- Edinburgh Royal Victoria and Associated Hospitals Board of Management
- Edinburgh Society for Relief of the Destitute Sick
- Edinburgh Southern Hospitals Board of Management
- Eye Ear and Throat Infirmary of Edinburgh
- General Medical Council
- General Practitioner Local Medical Committees of Edinburgh and Lothian
- Gill, Annie Warren
- Gogarburn Hospital
- Grant, Alice
- Gray, James Allan
- Gregory, Dr. John
- Guthrie, Douglas
- Haig Ferguson Memorial Home
- Henry Norman Mackenzie and William Douglas Mackenzie
- Hope, Mann, Todd and Kirk, Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh law agents
- Hospital Chaplains, Edinburgh Diocese of the Episcopal Church of Scotland
- Hospital for Diseases of Women Edinburgh
- James Henderson
- Jess, Claire
- Joe, Alexander
- Johnstone, Agnes Gibson
- Johnstone, Isobel
- Johnstone, Robert William
- Kay, Janet
- Kerr, Agnes Beveridge
- Kirkwood, Mary Jane Whitelaw
- Knoll Maternity Hospital
- Laidlaw, John
- Lamb, Ann
- Laws, Amelia Nyasa
- Leitch, Jean Walker
- Leith Hospital
- Levin, Ernst
- Lewis, Thomas Preston
- Lindsay, Janet Cranston
- Lindsay, M. G.
- Lothian Health Board
- Macdonald, Elizabeth Mackay
- MacGregor, Jessie McLaren
- Mackenzie and Company, Chemist
- Mackintosh, John
- Macpherson, Morag McLeod
- Marshall, Margaret Colville
- Martin, Irene Susan
- Medico-Chirurgical Society of Edinburgh
- Miller, Ada Elizabeth and Robert Webster
- Monro, Alexander, primus
- Morrison, Mary
- Morrison, William Kenneth
- National Radium Centre, Edinburgh
- North Lothian District, Lothian Health Board
- Olroyd, Elizabeth
- Paterson, Jane E.
- Pathology Department, University of Edinburgh
- Penicillin, wartime distribution to civilians in Edinburgh
- Primary Care Division, Lothian Health Board
- Princess Margaret Rose Orthopaedic Hospital
- Public Health Department of the City of Edinburgh
- Raeburn, Margaret Farquharson
- Reid, Thomas
- Reid, Winifred
- Robertson, Margaret Buchanan
- Roodlands General Hospital
- Rose, Joan Kennedy
- Rosslynlee Hospital
- Royal Edinburgh and Associated Hospitals Board of Management
- Royal Edinburgh Asylum Medical Library
- Royal Edinburgh Hospital
- Royal Edinburgh Hospital for Incurables
- Royal Edinburgh Hospital for Sick Children
- Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh
- Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh and Associated Hospitals Board of Management
- Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh and Associated Hospitals Unit
- Royal Infirmary Of Edinburgh Department Of Dietetics
- Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh NHS Trust
- Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh Samaritan Society
- Royal Medico-Psychological Association, Scottish Division
- Royal Victoria Dispensary, Hospital and Tuberculosis Trust
- Samuel, Catherine Bruce
- Saunders, Matthew Brown
- Save the Children Scotland: HIV/AIDS
- Scott, Isabella Boyd
- Second Scottish General Hospital Craigleith
- Shepherd, A.
- Simmons, Ida
- Simpson, Mary
- Smith, Annie Murray
- Social Work Department of the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh: HIV/AIDS
- Somerville, Alice M.
- South Eastern Regional Hospital Board Scotland
- South Lothian District, Lothian Health Board
- Spalding, Agnes and Nessie
- Staff Social Activities, Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh
- Steel, John Kohler
- Stephenson, Elsie
- Student Tickets, Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh
- Sweenie, Elizabeth
- Syme, Lucy M.
- Taylor, Frances
- Todd, Jane
- Toms, Bridget S.
- Tynedale-Biscoe, Barbara Bettina
- Venters, George
- Vert Memorial Hospital
- Western General Hospital
- Williamson, Edith Winchester Hindmarsh
- Willowbrae House Maternity Home
- Wilson, Barbara A. (nee Glascock)
- Wood, James
