The British Hospitals Association was established by Henry Burdett in 1884.
[3] Bernard Docker was the chairman in 1941[4] and represented them on the Nurses Salaries Committee chaired by Lord Rushcliffe which published two reports in 1943[5][6].
There were five other British Hospitals Association representatives on the Committee Muriel M Edwards, S Clayton Fryers of Leeds General Infirmary, Gilbert G Panter, J P Wetenhall, and S P Richardson (who was replaced by L Farrer Brown).
The Association was involved in discussions about the organisation of the future National Health Service, particularly about the regional hospital boards.
[7] It supported the objective of a free comprehensive health service, but warned that transfer of ownership of hospitals would lead to autocratic bodies taking the place of locally elected committees.