IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 1538 M31
Held at: Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists
Title: Manpower Working Party
Date(s): 1967-1980
Level of description: Collection (fonds)
Extent: 1 box
Name of creator(s): Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
This working party was set under the chairmanship of E A J Alment to consider staffing structures for obstetrics and gynaecology in relation to standards of practice, training and service. It reported to Council in September 1980.
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Correspondence of E A J Alment, papers and background material, 1967-1980, of the RCOG working party on manpower in obstetrics and gynaecology, including survey papers on London, England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland and papers on the employment of junior staff from overseas and a survey of North East Thames region.
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: English
System of arrangement:
The papers in this series were transferred in a state of very considerable disarray. An attempt was made to discern their underlying organisation and arrange them accordingly.
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:
A certain amount of apparently extraneous material has been removed.
Accruals:
No further accruals are expected.
Archival history:
The records in this series were probably removed from Alment's correspondence as College President before transfer to the Archives.
Immediate source of acquisition:
ALLIED MATERIALS
Existence and location of originals:
Existence and location of copies:
Related material:
RCOG Archives: a copy of the working party's report (entitled "Manpower survey 1978/9") may be found in A2/15/5. For records of an earlier ad hoc committee to consider the medical staffing at all levels in hospital departments of obstetrics and gynaecology, 1972-1973, see M29. For records of a later Manpower advisory sub-committee, 1980-1990, see M32. These bodies may be seen as precursers of the Manpower/Medical Workforce Advisory Committee of the College, which was set up in 1987, for the records of which see B18. For E A J Alment's correspondence as President, 1978-1981, see A4/17.
Publication note:
DESCRIPTION NOTES
Note:
Archivist's note: Compiled by Clare Cowling, Archivist, RCOG.
Date(s) of descriptions: February 2001