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Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists

Committee of Inquiry into Competence to Practise

IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 1538 C17

Held at: Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists

Title: Committee of Inquiry into Competence to Practise

Date(s): 1976

Level of description: Series of Joint committees and working parties of the RCOG

Extent: 1 folder

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

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

In 1973 the Board of Science and Education of the British Medical Association set up a series of exploratory meetings, it was from these meetings that the Committee of Enquiry into Competence to Practise evolved. The Committee comprised representatives from all Royal Colleges and their faculties, the Joint Consultants Committee and the BMA. The Chairman of the Committee was E A J Alment (later President of the RCOG). The terms of reference were: `To review the present methods of ensuring the maintenance of standards of continuing competence to practise and of the clinical care of patients, and to make recommendations.'

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Competence to Practise: The Report of a Committee of Enquiry set up for the Medical Profession in the United Kingdom, 1976.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English.

System of arrangement:

Arranged as given in scope and content.

Conditions governing access:

Open.

Conditions governing reproduction:

Copyright is 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

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Accruals:

No further accruals are expected.

Archival history:

Only the joint report has survived at the RCOG; the whereabouts of the official record is not known at this time.

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DESCRIPTION NOTES

Note:

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