List of NHS regional hospital boards (1947–1974)


Regional hospital boards were established in 1947 by the National Health Service Act 1946 to administer hospital and specialist services of the National Health Service in England and Wales. Each board was responsible for a number of hospital management committees.
The National Health Service Reorganisation Act 1973 replaced the hospital boards with regional health authorities in 1974.
Each board administered a regional hospital area, which was defined in terms of local government units: administrative counties, county boroughs, metropolitan boroughs, urban districts and rural districts.
Regional
hospital
area		Administrative countiesCounty boroughs
NewcastleCumberland, County Durham, Northumberland, part of Westmorland, part of North Riding of York Carlisle, Darlington, Gateshead, Middlesbrough, Newcastle upon Tyne, South Shields
LeedsEast Riding of York, the North Riding of York and West Riding of York Bradford, Dewsbury, Halifax, Huddersfield, Kingston upon Hull, Leeds, Wakefield, York
SheffieldDerby, Leicester, Lincoln, Parts of Holland, Lincoln, Parts of Kesteven, Lincoln, Parts of Lindsey, Nottingham and Rutland, part of West Riding of York Barnsley, Derby, Doncaster, Grimsby, Leicester, Lincoln, Nottingham, Rotherham and Sheffield
East AnglianCambridge, Huntingdon, Isle of Ely, Norfolk, Soke of Peterborough, East Suffolk, West Suffolk, part of Essex, part of Lincoln, Parts of Kesteven, part of Rutland Great Yarmouth, Ipswich, Norwich
North-West MetropolitanBedford, Hertford and Middlesex, part of Berks, Part of Hertford, part of Middlesex, part of London East Ham, Southend-on-Sea and West Ham
South-East MetropolitanKent, Sussex, East, part of London, Isle of Wight, Southampton, Surrey, Sussex, West, part of Wilts, part of the London, Buckingham, Northampton, Oxford, part of Gloucester, part of Wilts Northampton, Oxford and Reading
South-WesternCornwall, Devon, Gloucester, Somerset and Wilts, part of Dorset, Isles of ScillyBath, Bristol, Exeter, Gloucester and Plymouth
WelshThe whole of Wales and the administrative county of MonmouthNewport
BirminghamHereford, Salop, Stafford, Warwick and WorcesterBirmingham, Burton upon Trent, Coventry, Dudley, Smethwick, Stoke-on-Trent, Walsall, West Bromwich, Wolverhampton, and Worcester
ManchesterChester, Lancaster, Westmorland, part of Derby Barrow-in-Furness, Blackburn, Blackpool, Bolton, Burnley, Bury, Manchester, Oldham, Preston, Rochdale, Salford, Stockport and Wigan
LiverpoolPart of Chester, Isle of Wight, Hampshire, part of Wiltshire Bournemouth, Portsmouth and Southampton

At the same time the Welsh Regional Hospital Area was redesignated as the Welsh Hospital Area, and the Regional Hospital Board became the Welsh Hospital Board.