Dr Keith Hodgkin (1918-1999)
- Hodgkin, Keith, 1918-1999
- Date:
- 1939-1994
- Reference:
- GP/25
- Archives and manuscripts
About this work
Description
The papers here comprise a remarkably full set of records created over the course of Hodgkin's general practice career, including index cards of lecture, ward round and case notes made while a student at the Radcliffe Infirmary and the Hammersmith Hospital 1939-1943, and patient records from his practice 1954-1979. There are also reports and surveys illustrating the use of practice records in research. His Family Record contains reminiscences and evaluation of his professional, as well as family life, and material relating to his grandfather's uncle, Thomas Hodgkin (1798-1866), whose papers are held by the Archives and Manuscripts Department of the Library (PP/HO).
Hospital laboratory blood sample reports for Hodgkin's patients c.1965-1979 have been weeded, as have the ulcer-type dyspepsia survey forms, of which a sample copy of each type of form was kept.
List of abbreviations used:
BMJ British Medical Journal
cv curriculum vitae
GP General Practicioner
KH Keith Hodgkin
n.d. not dated
RCGP Royal College of General Practicioners
UTD Ulcer-type dyspepsia
WIHM Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine
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Biographical note
Keith Hodgkin worked as a General Practitioner from 1949, soon after the establishment of the NHS, and became very interested in methods of record keeping, believing that good record keeping practice would not only improve standards of patient care and facilitate the work of the GP but could also be used in research. In 1963 he published Towards Earlier Diagnosis, which described general practice work to students, with appendices detailing the records he kept in parallel with the NHS patient record notes. Diagnoses were recorded on the patient's notes, and ringed for entry into a day book and for indexing into a central diagnostic register which used the International Classification of Diseases. An age/sex register of all practice patients was also kept, and regularly updated. Hodgkin was instrumental in the formation of a group of four practices in the North East, which co-operated in research projects using their practice records. Studies carried out by the group included a five year survey on patients with ulcer-type dyspepsia, funded by the Medical Research Council.
The papers here comprise a remarkably full set of records created over the course of Hodgkin's general practice career, including index cards of lecture, ward round and case notes made while a student at the Radcliffe Infirmary and the Hammersmith Hospital 1939-1943, and patient records from his practice 1954-1979. There are also reports and surveys illustrating the use of practice records in research. His Family Record contains reminiscences and evaluation of his professional, as well as family life, and material relating to his grandfather's uncle, Thomas Hodgkin (1798-1866), whose papers are held by the Archives and Manuscripts Department of the Library (PP/HO).
Hospital laboratory blood sample reports for Hodgkin's patients c.1965-1979 have been weeded, as have the ulcer-type dyspepsia survey forms, of which a sample copy of each type of form was kept.
Biographical Summary:
1918 Born
1936-1939 Magdalen College, Oxford
1939 Degree in physiology
1939-1943 Student House Surgeon and work in Hugh Cairns's Neurosurgical Unit, Radcliffe Infirmary, Oxford
1942 BM, Oxford
1943 House Surgeon for Professor Grey Turner, Postgraduate Medical School, Hammersmith Hospital
1943-1946 Surgeon Lieutenant, Royal Navy
1946-1948 Newcastle General Infirmary
1948-1949 Hospital pathologist, Oxford
1949-1950 General Practice, Stockton
1950-1973 General Practice, Redcar
1963 Towards Earlier Diagnosis. A Family Doctor's Approach
1973-1978 Professor of General Practice, University of Newfoundland
1973 Visiting Professor, Glasgow Medical School
1978-1985 RCGP Committee on development of oral examination
1978 Visiting Professor, Dundee Medical School
1982 Visiting Lecturer, Western Australia Medical School
1983-1984 Editing Reader's Digest Medical Adviser
Related material
At Wellcome Collection:
Other papers relating to the Hodgkin Family are held at PP/HO. The papers of George Grey Turner are held at PP/GGT: Hodgkin worked as House Surgeon under him at the Hammersmith Hospital, 1943.