General Practitioner Maternity Unit Committee

Identity Statement

Reference code(s)	: GB 1538 M27
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	: General Practitioner Maternity Unit Committee
Date(s)	: 1961-1962
Level of description	: Collection (fonds) View parent record
Extent	: 1 folder, 1 volume
Name of creator(s)	: Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists

Context

Administrative/Biographical history:

This committee was set up by Council in January 1961 under the chairmanship of H R MacLennan. Its report, Recommendations on the Principles and Organisation of General Practitioner Maternity Units and their relation to specialist Maternity Units, was published in January 1962.

Content

Scope and content/abstract:

Correspondence, minutes and the final report, 1961-1962, of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists Committee on General Practitioner Maternity Units.

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:

Immediate source of acquisition:

It is not known when or by whom the material was passed to the Archives. Miss Mallon, the College Secretary, provided secretarial support for the committee, and the series was probably removed from her correspondence files.

Allied Materials

Related material:

RCOG Archives holds the minute book of the committee, 1961 (Ref: T15); later correspondence and papers (1968) of joint discussions between the RCOG and Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP) on the subject (Ref: C7/3).

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