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Lancashire / Re: A family mystery....any advice?
« on: Saturday 18 October 08 15:29 BST (UK)  »
Hi Lizzie,
I'm not sure just what would have been kept. I've been a nurse for over 25 years and have written hundreds of thousands of entries in patients notes over the years I should imagine!

We were always told that patients records are destroyed 10 years after their death - otherwise the hospital would run out of space to store them. How true that is I don't know...

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Lancashire / Re: A family mystery....any advice?
« on: Saturday 18 October 08 14:41 BST (UK)  »
Calderstones Hospital NHS Trust website:
http://www.calderstones.nhs.uk/

The original hospital site is now a rather exclusive housing development. There was a similar hospital, Brockhall not far from Calderstones, also now an exclusive housing estate.

The builder who bought the land at Brockhall Hospital, a chap by the name of Gerald Hitman laid a memorial stone to all the residents of Brockhall Hospital, which is in the tiny church grounds near to the old site.

I don't know if such a thing was ever done for the residents of Calderstones though.

Debbie

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