The Vale of Leven District General Hospital was initially built as an emergency project in 1955 on endowment land of the Henry Brock Vale of Leven Cottage Hospital.
The cottage hospital was an integral part of the new hospital. Named after Henry Brock, a Director of the United Turkey Red Company who bequeathed £15,000 for its inception, the hospital, which was also known as The Henry Brock Memorial Hospital, opened in 1924 in Bromley House, a converted mansion house.
From 1956 until 1977, when a new geriatric unit was opened, the Cottage Hospital functioned as the geriatric long stay unit and chronic sick assessment centre of the Vale of Leven Hospital. The cottage hospital was demolished in 1978.
The Vale of Leven Hospital was administered by the Western Regional Hospital Board until 1974, when the hospital came under control of the Dumbarton district of the Argyll and Clyde Health Board following the re-organisation of the Health Service.
In 2009, the Vale of Leven Hospital was subject to a public inquiry regarding an outbreak of Clostridium difficile within the hospital. Throughout the outbreak, 55 patients contracted Clostridium difficile, 18 of whom died.
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Further accruals expected.
There are currently no clinical records in this collection.
However, there are staff records, which are also subject to 75 year closure periods.
If you seek staff information regarding your own employment, or information in staff records less than 75 years old, you should contact the Archivist.
Also includes circular and disciplinary procedures from 1990-1993.
Records title / topic of lecture, and student attendance.
Includes photographs of nurses and, in some cases, details of previous education and career.
Records students test results and, in some cases, the test questions.
Records nurses' attendance, and topics of lectures / training sessions.
Records title / topic of lectures, as well as the lecturer delivering them.
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Records nurses' attendance at lectures, the topic / title of lecture, and end of term test results.
Records nurses' attendance, and the title / topic of lecture.
Records the students' names, which hospital they have come from, and which lectures they have attended.
Includes photographs, and details such as address and index number.
Shows staff with children. Matrons are named as Miss Brown and Mrs Black.
Photographs of reception, cleaning area, and equipment with nurses in background.
Photographs showing the nurses on their way, and having returned to the hospital.
Includes managerial, clinical, and administrative staff. Staff are unidentified.
Includes photographs of machinery, wards, and equipment, some with staff and patients in the background.
Shows maternity and geriatric patients with staff.
Also includes draft plans.
Shows staff and visitors.
Excerpt from the papers read before the Health Congress of the Royal Sanitary Institute at Scarborough, 27th – 30th April, 1954.
Includes short summaries for potential midwifes, nurses, pharmacists, laboratory staff, radiologists, physiotherapists, catering staff.
Includes photographs showing the condition of the building and its facilities, as well as small scale plans.
Two issues from Spring 1994, and Autumn 1993.
Also includes a monthly edition of