The British Hospitals Association was established by Henry Burdett in 1884.[1]
In 1887 it established a register of trained nurses for those who could show that they had worked for at least a year in a hospital or an infirmary and had been trained in the duties of a nurse.
It ran a Nurses Co-operative in the early years of the twentieth century which employed 500 nurses and had a turnover of £50,000 a year.[2]
Sir Arthur Stanley was chairman in 1924.[3]
Bernard Docker was the chairman in 1941.[4] It was involved in discussions about the organisation of the future National Health Service, particularly about the regional hospital boards.[5] It supported the objective of a free comprehensive health service, but warned that transfer of ownership of hospitals would lead to autocratic bodies taking the place of locally elected committees.[6]
References
edit- ^ Rivett, Geoffrey. "Biographical notes on Sir Henry Burdett, 1847-1920". NHS History. Retrieved 5 June 2017.
- ^ Abel-Smith, Brian (1960). A History of the Nursing Profession. London: Heinemann. p. 59.
- ^ "British Hospitals Association". British Medical Journal. 28 June 1924. p. 1137. PMC 2304600.
- ^ "British Hospitals Association". British Medical Journal: 644. 8 November 1941. Retrieved 6 June 2017.
- ^ Webster, Charles (1988). The Health Services Since the War. London: HMSO. p. 23. ISBN 978-0116309426.
- ^ "Report of meeting with British Hospitals Association on National Health Service Bill, 25 April 1946". Warwick Digital Collections. 15 May 1946. Retrieved 10 November 2022.