This is a brief guide to help you find records of a hospital. Ministry of Health records held at The National Archives are wide-ranging, although not all records survive. Many records of individual hospitals are held in local archives.
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What records can I see online?
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There are no hospital records available to see online.
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What records can I find at The National Archives at Kew?
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Records of the Ministry of Health and related bodies (1798-2001)
Browse MH in Discovery, our cataloguea search tool with descriptions of 11 million documents from the UK central government, law courts, and other national bodies, to find records from the Ministry of Health, the Poor Law Commission and other bodies involved in the provision of healthcare from 1798 to the modern day.
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To access these records you will either need to visit us, commission research (£there will be a charge) or, where you can identify a specific record referencea unique set of letters and numbers identifying a document in The National Archives, order a copy (£there will be a charge).
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What records can I find in other archives and organisations?
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Hospital records
Search the Hospital Records Database to locate records relating to specific hospitals held at The National Archives and other archives.
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Records held locally
Search the Access to Archives (A2A) and National Register of Archives (NRA) databases to find records held in local archives.
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What other resources will help me find information?
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Websites
Browse The Long, Long Trail website for information about military hospitals.
The London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine Voluntary Hospitals Database gives access to statistical data on beds, patients, income and expenditure from voluntary hospitals in Britain and Ireland between the 1890s and 1940s.
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Health
Patients, doctors and nurses
Workhouses