Wirral Archives holds records for the following hospitals, which date from both before and after the creation of the NHS in 1948.
Records after 1948 are held on behalf of the NHS, and all requests to see records of patients (and staff) should in the first instance be sent to the NHS Access to Information Manager at the Information Governance Department of Arrowe Park Hospital, at this email address:
wih-tr.accesstoinformationoffice@nhs.net
Contact us first to see if we hold the register in which you are interested. (We do not hold patients’ case notes.)
Hospitals (A/HH)
Minutes, annual reports, accounts, registers of nurses, registers of admissions and discharges, registers of patients, registers of operations performed, registers of births and baptisms, registers of deaths, x-ray registers, registers of patients’ property, hospital school records, newspaper cuttings, photographs, publications:
- A/HH/1 – Birkenhead General Hospital (1850-1974)
- A/HH/20 – Birkenhead Children’s Hospital (1870-1979)
- A/HH/50 – St Catherine’s Hospital, Birkenhead (1863-1979)
- A/HH/80 – Birkenhead Maternity Hospital (1896-1976)
- A/HH/90 – Thingwall Hospital (1912-1980)
- A/HH/95 – St James’s Hospital (1897-1974)
- A/HH/100 – Clatterbridge Hospital (1836-1974)
- A/HH/159 – Heathfield Maternity Home, Bromborough (1949-1974)
- A/HH/160 – Neston Cottage Hospital (1920-1974)
- A/HH/169 – Port Sanitary Hospital, New Ferry (1902-1958)
- A/HH/170 – Hoylake Cottage Hospital (1906-1977)
- A/HH/191 – Heswall Children’s Hospital School (1909-1993)
- A/HH/200 – Victoria Central Hospital (1885-1974)
- A/HH/240 – Highfield Maternity Hospital, Wallasey (1938-1978)
- A/HH/250 – Wallasey Hospital for Women (1867-1974)
- A/HH/270 – Leasowe Hospital (1913-1982)
- A/HH/300 – Arrowe Park Hospital (1964-1982)
- A/HB/5-6 – Convalescent Home, Pensby (1919-1948)
The following hospitals have not deposited records, but notes on them are contained in the catalogue file:
- Caldy Manor Hospital
- Cleaver Hospital, Heswall
Hospitals Boards and Committees
- A/HB – Wirral Joint Hospital Board (1888-1948)
Minutes, accounts, registers of patients, mortgages, loans, insurance policies
- A/HM – Hospital Management Committees (1948-1974)
Minutes, reports, accounts, correspondence, circulars
- A/HM/1 – Birkenhead (1948-1974)
- A/HM/100 – Central Wirral (1948-1974)
- A/HM/200 – North Wirral (1948-1974)
- A/EC – Executive Councils
Minutes
- Birkenhead Executive Council
- Wallasey Executive Council