BANHAM, Belinda Joan (fl 1936-1991)
Identity Statement
Reference code(s) | : GB 0100 KCLCA K/PP85 |
Held at | : King's College London College Archives Click here to find out how to view this collection at http://www.kcl.ac.uk/library/archivespec/ › |
Full title | : BANHAM, Belinda Joan (fl 1936-1991) |
Date(s) | : 1991 |
Level of description | : Collection (fonds) |
Extent | : 1 volume |
Name of creator(s) | : Banham | Belinda Joan | fl 1936-1991 | health care administrator |
Context
Administrative/Biographical history:
Date of birth unknown; educated privately in Brussels and elsewhere prior to 1935, nurse tending to tuberculosis patients in the Royal Sea Bathing Hospital, Margate, 1935-1937; Radcliffe Infirmary Preliminary Training School, Headington, Oxford, 1937-1939; Civil Nursing Reserve during World War Two, 1939-1945; worked as a nurse in Cornwall following the War; Diploma in Social Studies and BSc in Sociology, University of London, completed 1955; worked on studies into deprivation and disability for Cornwall County Council leading to wider changes in family welfare provision, 1955-1965; involved in hospital management in Cornwall and the South Western Regional Health Board, including as Chairman in the Cornish health authorities, 1965-1977; Kensington, Chelsea and Westminster Family Practitioner Committee member, 1979-1985; Paddington and North Kensington District Health Authority, 1981-1986; Lambeth, Southwark and Lewisham Family Practitioner Committee, 1987-1990; Chairman, Lambeth, Southwark and Lewisham Family Health Services Authority, 1993-1996; member of Medical Research Council (MRC), 1980-1987; consultancy work, 1988-2002.
Content
Scope and content/abstract:
Volume of published memoirs by Belinda Banham, entitled Snapshots in time: some experiences in health care, 1836-1991 (Penzance, 1991), describing her career in health care before the Second World War, as a manager and administrator in the National Health Service (NHS), board director and consultant.
Access & Use
Language/scripts of material:
English
System of arrangement:
Conditions governing access:
Open, subject to the signature of a reader's undertaking form.
Conditions governing reproduction:
Subject to the usual copyright and copying restrictions placed on published works.
Finding aids:
Collection description.
Archival Information
Archival history:
Immediate source of acquisition:
Allied Materials
Related material:
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Description Notes
Archivist's note:
Sources: Who's Who. Entry compiled by Geoff Browell as part of the RSLP AIM25 Project.
Rules or conventions:
Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.
Date(s) of descriptions:
April 2002
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