Our major holdings include:
- Minutes and papers of the Board of Management and committees of the hospital and network
- Correspondence of the Chief Executive Officer
- Annual reports
- Senior medical staff minutes
- Building plans, specifications and correspondence
- Minutes, newspaper cuttings and annual reports of Hospital Auxiliaries
- Papers, reports, brochures on the history of RMH nursing and nurse education
- Newspaper cuttings and publicity material
- Minutes of hospital related medical research foundations
- Reports and correspondence of hospital departments
- Photographs of staff, services and departments
- Medical/surgical instruments, equipment and memorabilia
- Oral histories
- Essendon and District Memorial Hospital Minutes of Board Committees and annual reports
- Minutes, annual reports and incomplete patient admittance registers are also held for the predecessor institutions to the RMH’s Royal Park Campus, including:
+ the Immigrants’ Aid Society (existed 1853-1902)
+ Victorian Homes for Aged and Infirm (existed 1902-1925)
+ Mount Royal Hospital (existed 1939-1991)
Patient medical records from 1856 to1910 are controlled by the Archives. Some original volumes of patient records from this period have been sent to the Public Record Office Victoria. Indices to these records are held within the RMH Archives.
Patient records after 1910 are not held in RMH Archives and all enquiries to access these records should be made to the hospital's Freedom of Information Unit via: FOIrequest@mh.org.au, see https://www.thermh.org.au/patients-visitors/coming-hospital/medical-records