Manpower Working Party

Identity Statement

Reference code(s)	: GB 1538 M31
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	: Manpower Working Party
Date(s)	: 1967-1980
Level of description	: Collection (fonds) View parent record
Extent	: 1 box
Name of creator(s)	: Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists

Context

Administrative/Biographical history:

This working party was set under the chairmanship of E A J Alment to consider staffing structures for obstetrics and gynaecology in relation to standards of practice, training and service. It reported to Council in September 1980.

Content

Scope and content/abstract:

Correspondence of E A J Alment, papers and background material, 1967-1980, of the RCOG working party on manpower in obstetrics and gynaecology, including survey papers on London, England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland and papers on the employment of junior staff from overseas and a survey of North East Thames region.

Access & Use

Language/scripts of material:
English

System of arrangement:

The papers in this series were transferred in a state of very considerable disarray. An attempt was made to discern their underlying organisation and arrange them accordingly.

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:

The records in this series were probably removed from Alment's correspondence as College President before transfer to the Archives.

Immediate source of acquisition:

Allied Materials

Related material:

RCOG Archives: a copy of the working party's report (entitled "Manpower survey 1978/9") may be found in A2/15/5. For records of an earlier ad hoc committee to consider the medical staffing at all levels in hospital departments of obstetrics and gynaecology, 1972-1973, see M29. For records of a later Manpower advisory sub-committee, 1980-1990, see M32. These bodies may be seen as precursers of the Manpower/Medical Workforce Advisory Committee of the College, which was set up in 1987, for the records of which see B18. For E A J Alment's correspondence as President, 1978-1981, see A4/17.

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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