Nottinghamshire Archives holds records of:

  • Saxondale Hospital, formerly Sneinton Asylum
  • Mansfield Institution, later Victoria Hospital
  • Mansfield Forest Hospital
  • Ransom Hospital
  • Newark General Hospital
  • Mapperley Hospital, Nottingham
  • St Ann's War Emergency Hospital, Nottingham
  • Coppice Hospital, Nottingham
  • St Francis Hospital, Nottingham
  • Harlow Wood Orthopaedic Hospital, Mansfield
  • Barnby Road TB Hospital, Newark
  • Mansfield Hospital Management Board
  • Nottingham No 5 Hospital Management Committee
  • Mansfield and District Orthopaedic Guild
  • Mansfield and District General Hospital
  • King's Mill Hospital, Sutton in Ashfield
  • Langwith Lodge
  • Central Nottinghamshire Health Authority
  • Trent Vale Hospital Management Committee
  • Nottingham No 1 Management Committee
  • Nottingham No 2 Management Committee
  • Nottingham No 3 Management Committee
  • Nottingham City Hospital
  • Sherwood Hospital
  • Ellerslie House Hospital
  • Firs Maternity Hospital
  • Hucknall and District Cripples Guild
  • Nottingham City Isolation Hospital

Main groups of documents
Committee minute books
Patients registers
Registers of admission and discharge
Ward report books
Plans
How to find the document you want

Main groups of documents include:

Committee minute books

Coverage: 19th - 20th centuries
Minutes of various committee meetings, including house and finance committees. Some include copy letters, reports and financial statements.

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Patients registers

Coverage: mid 19th - mid 20th centuries
Registers of patients including admission date, name, age, form of diagnoses and date of discharge or death; some also include place of abode, religion and occupation.

The quantity and detail of patients registers varies between hospital. See also registers of admission and discharge.

Patients records are on restricted access. Contact us for more information.

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Registers of admission and discharge

Coverage: 19th - 20th centuries
Detail patients' date of admission, name, age, diagnosis and date of discharge or death.

The quantity and detail of admission and discharge registers varies between hospital. See also patients registers.

Patients records are on restricted access. Contact us for more information.

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Ward report books

Coverage: 20th century
Provide details of admissions, discharges, treatments given and observations of individual patients.

The quantity and detail of ward report books varies between hospital.

Patients records are on restricted access. Contact us for more information.

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Plans

Coverage: 20th century
Plans of hospital property.

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How to find the document you want

Records are grouped together according to the hospital to which they relate.

There is a catalogue for hospital records available in the archives search room.

Some catalogues can also be searched online on the Access to Archives web site

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Online Catalogues

Some hospital catalogues can be consulted online on the Access to Archives web site

Hospital Records Elsewhere

The University of Nottingham holds a large number of hospital records, including those of Nottingham General Hospital
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