IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 1538 C14
Held at: Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists
Title: Joint Medico-Legal Committee of the RCOG and Medical Defence Societies
Date(s): 1985-1998
Level of description: Series of Joint committees and working parties of the RCOG
Extent: 2 boxes, 2 volumes
Name of creator(s): Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
The Committee was established in 1987. It consisted of representatives from the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists and one representative from each of the three Defence Societies; the Medical Protection Society, the Medical Defence Union and the Medical and Dental Defence Union of Scotland, plus a senior solicitor and an observer from the DHSS. Its remit was to advise the RCOG Council of the RCOG and the Defence Societies on medico-legal matters as they related to obstetrics and gynaecology. The Committee's secretariat was based at the RCOG. The Committee was disbanded in 1998.
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Records of the Joint Medico-Legal Committee of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists and Medical Defence Societies, 1985-1998, comprising correspondence files of the Committee, papers on the background to its establishment, some minutes of meetings and publications, including How to Avoid Medico-Legal Problems in Obstetrics and Gynaecology; edited by G Chamberlain & C Orr, 1990.
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: English.
System of arrangement:
Arranged in files as given in scope and content.
Conditions governing access:
Open 20 years after last date on file, other than papers marked confidential which are closed for 75 years.
Conditions governing reproduction:
Copyright is vested in the College.
Physical characteristics:
Finding aids:
A key to the 1991 correspondence is at the front of the relevant file (C14/1/5). 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
Appraisal, destruction and scheduling information:
Accruals:
No further accruals are expected.
Archival history:
Immediate source of acquisition:
The records were maintained by the College's Committee Secretary and transferred at regular intervals to the Archives.
ALLIED MATERIALS
Existence and location of originals:
Existence and location of copies:
Related material:
RCOG Archives holds Presidents' papers relating to the Committee, 1988-1994, (Ref: A4/21/140 and A4/25/153) and files on litigation generally, 1984-1992 (Ref: A4/25/136-138); the Honorary Secretary's papers concerning litigation, 1987-1990 (Ref: A7/6/5); joint meetings of the RCOG and medical defence societies between 1986 and 1989 on how to avoid legal problems in obstetrics and gynaecology (Refs: E4/49, E4/58, E4/114 and E4/130).
Publication note:
DESCRIPTION NOTES
Note:
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; February 2002