The importance of our predecessor organisations to the State will be permanently preserved, with the recent transfer of key records of Queen Victoria Hospital to Public Record Office Victoria.
The complex project required retrieval of tens of thousands of records from offsite storage, creating a space for Monash archives followed by the intricate task of identifying those that are considered permanent records of the State.
Legal, HIS, Finance, Capital and Pathology all worked together to identify and separate these key records. The records included hand-written minutes of the first meeting of the founding doctors in 1896, the first annual report in 1897 and descriptions of the illnesses suffered by the first patients, and the outcomes of treatment.
“The project leaves Monash Health in a much better position to maximise the value of its incredible history,” said Project Lead Kim Minett.
The next project is focused on the permanent records of Prince Henry’s Hospital.
Approved by Anna Laird