Royal Commission on the National Health Service Working Party

Identity Statement

Reference code(s)	: GB 1538 M15
Held at	: Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists   Click here to find out how to view this collection at https://www.rcog.org.uk/en/guidelines-research-services/library-services/archives-and-heritage/archives/ ›
Full title	: Royal Commission on the National Health Service Working Party
Date(s)	: 1976-1977
Level of description	: Collection (fonds) View parent record
Extent	: 2 boxes, 1 folder
Name of creator(s)	: Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists

Context

Administrative/Biographical history:

The establishment of the Royal Commission on the National Health Service (NHS) was announced by the government in 1975. It was to consider the "best use and management of the financial and manpower resources of the NHS" (see the introduction to the minute book of the working party at M15M/1). The Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (RCOG) working party on evidence to the Royal Commission was set up on 16 June 1976, under the chairmanship of T L T Lewis, by the Finance and Executive Committee in order to submit evidence to the Commission on behalf of the College.

Content

Scope and content/abstract:

Correspondence concerning the composition of the Royal Commission on the National Health Service; correspondence concerning the evidence of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (RCOG) to the Commission, 1976-1977; RCOG working party on evidence to the Royal Commission: correspondence, minutes and other records, including a copy of the RCOG's evidence, 1976; working party on evidence to the Royal Commission: minute book, with a copy of the published report, 1976-1977.

Access & Use

Language/scripts of material:
English

System of arrangement:

Conditions governing access:

Open.

Conditions governing reproduction:

Copyright: vested in the College.

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

Archival history:

As the content of the series primarily consists of correspondence and papers of C J Dewhurst PRCOG, a member of the working party, and also some official correspondence of the Chairman, T L T Lewis, it appears likely therefore that the President's P A may have performed some secretarial duties for the working party and later passed the records to the Archives.

Immediate source of acquisition:

Allied Materials

Related material:

RCOG Archives hold papers of an extraordinary meeting of Council in December 1976 to discuss the Royal Commission on the NHS (Ref: A2/11/7); the President's Office file on the Royal Commission (Ref: A4/17/77).

Publication note:

Description Notes

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