Platt Report: 'A Reform of Nursing Education' Working Party

Identity Statement

Reference code(s)	: GB 1538 M4
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	: Platt Report: 'A Reform of Nursing Education' Working Party
Date(s)	: 1965
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:

The working party was set up by the RCOG Finance and Executive Committee in 1965. Its terms of reference were as follows: "to consider the Platt Report `A reform of Nursing Education' and prepare a memorandum for submission to the Minister with particular reference to the effects of the implementation of this Report on the status and future training of midwives" (reference: RCOG memorandum in M4/1). Humphrey Arthure, formerly Honorary Secretary of the College (1947-1955), was the chairman of the working party.

Content

Scope and content/abstract:

Correspondence, minutes and the final memorandum of the RCOG working party to consider the Platt Report, 'A Reform of Nursing Education', 1965, including letters from the Chairman Humphrey Arthure, the Honorary Secretary (Mr Lewis) and the College Secretaries (Miss Seccombe and Mr Catterall).

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:

Not known.

Immediate source of acquisition:

Allied Materials

Related material:

RCOG Archives holds the minute book of this working party (Ref: T19).

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