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Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists

Antenatal and Intrapartum Care Working Party


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 1538 M33

Held at: Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists

Title: Antenatal and Intrapartum Care Working Party

Date(s): 1979-1982

Level of description: Collection (fonds)

Extent: 2 boxes

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

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

The working party was established in 1979 under the chairmanship of M C Macnaughton. Its terms of reference were "to consider the provision and standards of antenatal and intrapartum obstetrics services, and to make recommendations for possible improvements in necessary standards in future". This working party is an extension of an earlier RCOG/BPA Standing Joint Committee that published its report in 1978, Recommendations for the improvement of infant care during the perinatal period in the United Kingdom. However it was felt that the antenatal and intrapartum period needed to be covered; hence the 1979 working party.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Papers of the RCOG Antenatal and intrapartum care working party, 1979-1982, comprising Minute book, 1979-1982; Committee meetings' papers, 1979-1982; Agenda and minutes of all meetings, 1979-1982; Committee chairman's and secretary's correspondence, 1979-1982; Pamphlets, etc, of National Childbirth Trust, Health Education Council, and Scottish Health Education Unit, and related correspondence, 1980; Health authority, hospital, and other professional bodies' documents on antenatal and perinatal care, 1979-1980; Published report, 1982; Circulation of published report, 1982; Responses to published report, 1982.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English

System of arrangement:

Conditions governing access:

Open 20 years after last date on file.

Conditions governing reproduction:

Copyright: vested in the College.

Physical characteristics:

Finding aids:

A general index to the files listed in the catalogue of the Archives of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists is maintained in the College Archives; refer to the College Archivist.

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

Appraisal, destruction and scheduling information:

Accruals:

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

Unknown. It is likely that they came from the President's office.

ALLIED MATERIALS

Existence and location of originals:

Existence and location of copies:

Related material:

RCOG Archives holds a College President's file relating to the working party 1979-1981, at A4/17/72.

Publication note:

DESCRIPTION NOTES

Note:

Archivist's note: Compiled by Clare Cowling, Archivist, RCOG.

Rules or conventions: National Council on Archives, Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997; ISAD(G), Second Edition, 2000.

Date(s) of descriptions: February 2001


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Birth | Life cycle
Maternal and child health | Health policy | Health
Obstetrics | Medical sciences
Pregnancy | Human reproduction | Physiology
Surgery | Medical sciences
Health services
Reproductive cycle
Social sciences
Social welfare

Personal names

Corporate names
Health Education Council
National Childbirth Trust
Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists x British College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists
Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists | Antenatal and Intrapartum Care Working Party
Scottish Health Education Unit

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