IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 1538 M16
Held at: Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists
Title: Stillbirth and Neonatal Death/Management of Perinatal Deaths Working Party
Date(s): 1978-1985
Level of description: Collection (fonds)
Extent: 1 box
Name of creator(s): Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
The working party was set up by the College President in 1984 to "look into ways of improving the management of parents who had had a stillbirth or neonatal death" (Guidance notes in the minute book of the working party; see M16M/1). This body was also known as the working party on the management of perinatal deaths. Its Chairman was R D Atlay FRCOG.
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Papers of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists' Stillbirth and neonatal death/management of perinatal deaths working party, comprising background papers and correspondence, 1983-1984; President's background papers and correspondence, 1978-1985; Committee chairman's correspondence and papers on publication of report, 1984-1986; background literature and chairman's papers, 1983-1984; Chairman's correspondence and papers, 1984-1985; Report of the RCOG Working Party on the Management of Perinatal Deaths, with circulation list, 1985; minute book of the working party, 1984.
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: English
System of arrangement:
Conditions governing access:
Open 20 years after last date on file.
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:
Immediate source of acquisition:
As the bulk of records in the series comprise the papers of R D Atlay, Chairman of the working party and also Honorary Secretary of the RCOG, the material was probably passed to the Archives by Mr Atlay's secretary. An exception is the President's correspondence at M16/2, which was transferred by the President's P A in c1985.
ALLIED MATERIALS
Existence and location of originals:
Existence and location of copies:
RCOG Archives hold a microfilm copy of the working party's minute book (Ref: MR/16).
Related material:
RCOG Archives holds the President's Office files on this subject, 1981-1993(Ref: A4/25/79, A4/25/171-173); records of a contemporary joint working party of the Royal Colleges and the Department of Health on perinatal mortality, 1981-1985 (Ref: C16).
Publication note:
DESCRIPTION NOTES
Note:
Archivist's note: Compiled by Clare Cowling, Archivist, RCOG.
Date(s) of descriptions: February 2001; February 2002