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Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists

Screening for Neural Tube Defects Working Group


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 1538 M10

Held at: Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists

Title: Screening for Neural Tube Defects Working Group

Date(s): 1977-1981

Level of description: Collection (fonds)

Extent: 1 box

Name of creator(s): Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

The working group was set up in 1978 at the request of Sir Henry Yellowlees, Chief Medical Officer, in order to "advise on what guidance might be given to health authorities on the introduction into routine antenatal care of a service to detect neural tube defects". The group was chaired by the President of the Royal College of Physicians and the RCOG was represented by the College President. The final report was produced in July 1979.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Presidents' correspondence and copy papers, and final report of the RCOG working party on screening for neural tube defects, 1977-1981.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English

System of arrangement:

Conditions governing access:

Open.

Conditions governing reproduction:

Copyright: vested in the College.

Physical characteristics:

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

Appraisal, destruction and scheduling information:

Accruals:

No further accruals are expected.

Archival history:

The records were probably removed at some stage from one of the Presidents' correspondence file series before being passed to the Archives.

Immediate source of acquisition:

ALLIED MATERIALS

Existence and location of originals:

Existence and location of copies:

Related material:

The College holds a later file of the President on this subject, 1992-1993 (Ref: A4/25/65).

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: February 2001; February 2002


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Embryology | Physiological development | Physiology
Foetus | Anatomy | Biology
Maternal and child health | Health policy | Health
Pregnancy | Human reproduction | Physiology
Professional associations | Associations | Organizations
Embryonic structures
Health services
Reproductive cycle
Social sciences
Social welfare

Personal names

Corporate names
Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists x British College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists
Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists | Working Group on Screening for Neural Tube Defects

Places