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Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists

College records of the Advisory Appointments Committees


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 1538 RCOG/C21

Held at: Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists

Title: College records of the Advisory Appointments Committees

Date(s): 1955-1994

Level of description: Collection

Extent: 3 boxes

Name of creator(s): Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

Advisory appointments committees were set up by regional hospital boards in 1955 to select consultants for appointment in hospitals around the country. Committee members were external assessors who came from a different area to where the appointment was being made. Method of selection of assessors was as follows: requests would be made to the relevant medical college for nominations for membership of committees, and those persons nominated approached directly by the President of the College.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists records of the Advisory Appointments Committees, 1955-1994, comprising correspondence regarding the functions of advisory appointment committees, such as nomination to the committees, appointment to the regional hospital boards and the criteria for consultant appointments (1962-1967). Also includes: a list of nominations to the committees (1962-1967); a sample of assessors reports on candidates and appointments to consultant posts (1978-1994, 1998-1999); papers relating to censuses conducted by regional college advisers; papers concerning regional advisers' censuses of Senior House Officer (SHO) posts (1982, 1986).

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English

System of arrangement:

As set out above in Scope and Content.

Conditions governing access:

Open, although restrictions apply for items containing personal information.

Conditions governing reproduction:

Physical characteristics:

Finding aids:

RCOG/B3/2 have been indexed and the names of successful candidates will be found in the Index to the Guide to the College Archives.

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

Appraisal, destruction and scheduling information:

In 1999 a Disposal Agreement (DA/5) was made between the Administration Department and the College Archives to destroy unsuccessful applications.

Accruals:

No further accruals are expected.

Archival history:

Records in this series were transferred to the Archives by the Postgraduate Training Department (PGT), which was responsible for administrative work relating to the advisory appointments committees until 1993 when the Administration Department assumed responsibility. In 2000 PGT resumed responsibility for the committee related work.

Immediate source of acquisition:

Found in the President's files for 1996.

ALLIED MATERIALS

Existence and location of originals:

Existence and location of copies:

Microfilm copies of the minute books are at MR/7 (volume I), MR/8 (volume II) and MR/9 (volume III).

Related material:

Publication note:

DESCRIPTION NOTES

Note:

Archivist's note: Imported from the RCOG catalogue and edited by Sarah Drewery.

Rules or conventions: General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal Place and Corporate Names 1997.

Date(s) of descriptions: Import: Oct 2008; edit: Feb 2009.


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Medical societies | Societies | Associations | Organizations
Recruitment | Personnel management | Organization and administration | Health services administration | Public administration | Government

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Corporate names
Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists

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