Standing Joint Committee of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists, Royal College of Physicians and Royal College of Surgeons of England

Identity Statement

Reference code(s)	: GB 1538 C1
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	: Standing Joint Committee of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists, Royal College of Physicians and Royal College of Surgeons of England
Date(s)	: 1939-1974
Level of description	: Series of Joint committees and working parties of the RCOG View parent record
Extent	: 1 box
Name of creator(s)	: Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists Royal College of Physicians Royal College of Surgeons of England

Context

Administrative/Biographical history:

In 1942 the Royal College of Physicians of London (RCP) and the Royal College of Surgeons of England (RCSENG) met together and agreed to ask the RCOG to co-operate to form a Standing Joint Committee of the three Royal Colleges. The Committee initially met each month to discuss matters of mutual interest, particularly the training of consultants; the three College presidents alternated as chairman.

Content

Scope and content/abstract:

Minutes, correspondence and papers of the Standing Joint Committee of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists, the Royal College of Physicians and the Royal College of Surgeons of England, 1939-1974; Sub-committee on the Registration of Specialists, minutes, 1966-1967, and correspondence, 1964-1967.

Access & Use

Language/scripts of material:
English.

System of arrangement:

Arranged in files as given in scope and content.

Conditions governing access:

Records are open for research 20 years after last date in volume or on file.

Conditions governing reproduction:

Copyright is 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:

C1/1-7 comprise College working party members' copies of minutes and papers, probably removed from the file series of the College presidents. The series peters out in 1974, and there are no further records in Presidents' papers from this time. The committee may therefore have been disbanded in 1974, but there is no information on file to confirm this.

The records of the Sub-committee on the Registration of Specialists at C1/6-7, on the other hand, probably comprise the official record of the sub-committee, as Sir John Peel, later RCOG president (1966-1969), was chairman from 1964-1966.

Immediate source of acquisition:

See Appraisal, destruction and scheduling information.

Allied Materials

Related material:

RCOG Archives also holds a minute book of the Joint Committee of the three Royal Colleges 1941-1964 (Ref: T2), and minutes of meetings between the three Royal Colleges and the Faculty of Radiologists to consider Ministry of Health proposals on supply of radioactive substances for medical purposes (Ref: T9).

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:
September 2000