Unplanned Pregnancy Working Party, 1988-1992

Identity Statement

Reference code(s)	: GB 1538 M40
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	: Unplanned Pregnancy Working Party, 1988-1992
Date(s)	: 1988-1992
Level of description	: Collection (fonds) View parent record
Extent	: 2 boxes
Name of creator(s)	: Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists

Context

Administrative/Biographical history:

The working party was instituted by the Council of the RCOG in 1989 to review the education and services related to contraception in view of the continuing high rate of unplanned pregnancy. It reported in September 1991.

Content

Scope and content/abstract:

Minutes, papers and correspondence relating to the RCOG working party on unplanned pregnancy, drafts and comments on the report and the report itself, 1988-1992.

Access & Use

Language/scripts of material:
English

System of arrangement:

The working party's records are arranged chronologically by meeting.

Conditions governing access:

Open 20 years after last date on file.

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:

Provenance unclear but probably the Deputy College Secretary's Office. This office has provided the secretariat for the majority of working parties.

Allied Materials

Related material:

RCOG Archives holds records of an earlier working party on the same subject, 1969 to 1972 (Ref: M7); a file of the President on the working party, 1988-1991 (Ref: 4/25/229), and the records of a joint steering group on teenage pregnancy, 1993-1995 (Ref: C23).

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; February 2002