Department of Clinical Physics and Bio Engineering

Reference HB 70
Dates of Creation 1944-1992
Name of Creator Department of Clinical Physics and Bio Engineering (physics and bio-engineering department : 1953-1992 : Glasgow)
Language of Material English
Physical Description 5 metres

Scope and Content

Registry files regarding department’s buildings, equipment and staff, services to hospitals and clinical research including cardiac pacemakers, ultrasound, and nuclear medicine 1948-1983
Publications of department 1956-1992
Annual reports 1954-1960
Files, reports and publications removed by Professor Lenihan for projected history of department, including material relating to audiometry, radiology and radiotherapy 1944-1985
Hospital Physicists Association daybooks and publications accumulated by J. McKie (Honorary Secretary, Bulletin Editor and President) 1948-1990

Administrative / Biographical History

The  Regional Physics Department of the Western Regional Hospital Board was established in  1953. In 1974 the Department became a joint service of the West of Scotland Health Boards. For a time it was the largest clinical physics department in Britain. The bulk of its staff were based in hospitals but the department provided them with technical support, a unified management structure and enhanced promotion prospects. During the reorganisation which took place in  1992  it proved impossible to maintain a unified service in an area with so many autonomous trusts. The department was disbanded, with the professor of clinical physics and the largest single part of the staff transferring to the Western Infirmary, Glasgow.

Arrangement
Chronological within record class

Conditions Governing Access
The General Data Protection Regulations apply

Acquisition Information
Department of Clinical Physics and Bio Engineering and Mrs Nancy Lenihan

Other Finding Aids
Descriptive list

Alternative Form Available
No known copies

Archivist's Note
Compiled by Alistair Tough, Greater Glasgow NHS Board Archivist, 23 July 1998 and revised 20 May 2019

Reproduction subject to usual conditions: educational use and condition of documents.

Appraisal Information
This material has been appraised in line with standard procedures

Custodial History
Bulk of records held within National Health Service prior to transfer. Some items were in custody of Professor John Lenihan at the time of his death.

Accruals
None expected

Related Material
HB 28, Records of Western Regional Hospital Board, Glasgow; HB 55, Records of Greater Glasgow Health Board; and HB 88, Papers of John Mark Anthony Lenihan, British clinical physicist, 1918-1993