Annual report : 1948/49 / Wigan and Leigh Hospital Management Committee.

  • Wigan and Leigh Hospital Management Committee.
Date:
1949
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Annual report : 1948/49 / Wigan and Leigh Hospital Management Committee. Source: Wellcome Collection.

    14/44 (page 10)
    Local Administration by Hospital Management Committee. 14. The Wigan and Leigh Hospital Management Committee is res¬ ponsible to the Manchester Regional Hospital Board for controlling and administering the following hospitals and clinics :— Wigan Area :— Beds (a) Royal Albert Edward Infirmary, Wigan, including the Christopher Private Patients Home . 225 (b) Billinge Hospital. 386 (c) Whelley Hospital 76 (d) Pemberton Hospital . 28 (e) Ashton-in-Makerfield Hospital (temporarily closed) 40 Leigh Area :— (a) Leigh Infirmary. 102 (b) Atherleigh Hospital . 218 (c) Astley Hospital . 120 (d) Firs Maternity Home . 20 Chest Clinics :— (a) Millgate, Wigan. (b) Mesnes Park Terrace, Wigan. (c) Church Street, Leigh. Note.—The Committee also has the use of 71 beds at the Frog Lane Welfare Home, which is controlled by the Wigan County Borough Council. Changes in Names of Hospitals. 15. Shortly after the “ appointed day ” consideration was given to the question as to whether any changes were desirable in the names of the different hospitals consequent upon the change of ownership and possible changes in their use. 16. It was decided that several changes should be made and the new names of the hospitals are as set out below :— Billinge Hospital (formerly Billinge Public Assistance Institution). Atherleigh Hospital (formerly Atherleigh Public Assistance Institution). Astley Hospital (formerly Astley Infectious Diseases Sanatorium). 17. It may also be mentioned here that the Lancashire County Council have now adopted the name “ Atherleigh Grange ” for that portion of Atherleigh Hospital which is occupied by residents under Part III of the National Assistance Act, 1948. Membership of Hospital Management Committee. 18. The Hospital Management Committee, which renders volun¬ tary service, is a body corporate with perpetual succession and a common seal, and is composed of a chairman and 15 members appointed by the Regional Hospital Board for a term of three years with one-third of their number retiring each year. The Committee meets at monthly intervals. In due course it is expected that a series of standing orders will be compiled which will control the committee procedures, etc., and administrative policy, but the Minister of Health is proposing to issue model standing orders, and the question is deferred until the model orders are published.