Collection K/PP85 - BANHAM, Belinda Joan (fl 1936-1991)

Key Information

Reference code

K/PP85

Title

BANHAM, Belinda Joan (fl 1936-1991)

Date(s)

  • 1991 (Creation)

Level of description

Collection

Extent

1 volume

Scope and content

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.

General Information

Name of creator

(1936-1991)

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.

Conditions governing access

Open, subject to signature of Reader's undertaking form, and appropriate provision of two forms of identification, to include one photographic ID.

Conditions governing reproduction

Copies may be supplied subject to the usual copyright and copying restrictions for published works.

Language of material

  • English

Script of material

Finding aids

Collection description.

Existence and location of originals

Off-campus collection

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Related descriptions

Alternative identifier(s)

Place access points

People and Organisations

Genre access points

Rules and/or conventions used

Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000.

Script(s)

Archivist's note

Sources: Who's Who. Entry compiled by Geoff Browell as part of the RSLP AIM25 Project.

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