Worcestershire's Health Record (360G-Wellcome-215414_Z_19_Z)

The project proposes to increase the variety of sources available for the study of medicine, health and welfare in Worcestershire by cataloguing and conserving a range of collections from our backlog and retroconverting old paper catalogues relating to hospitals and health professionals and organisations pre and post the formation of the NHS. This will build on our previous project cataloguing the mental health records of Barnsley Hall and Powick Hospitals. The project objectives are: To create catalogues of our unlisted health related collections to international standards for use by medical professionals and researchers and the general public, subject to any limitations imposed by the confidential or sensitive nature of the material. The catalogues will be available at http://www.worcestershire.gov/CalmView/ To retroconvert our pre CALM paper catalogues relating to health/hospital records so that they can be accessed online. To clean, preserve, repackage into appropriately sized boxes and folders and repair fragile items in the collections To promote the project as it progresses and raise awareness of our medical and health records holdings by means of social media, articles in relevant newsletters, an exhibition, presentations at workshops/day schools and a health walk To produce an online guide outlining our main health archive collections