Minutes of the Royal College of Nursing Council meetings

Reference:GB 1199 RCN2/1/1993
Dates of Creation:1993
Name of Creator:
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Scope and Content
Meetings were held every few months, in January, April, July and October. Each meeting is split into open and closed sessions (in the following format: closed agenda, supporting papers for closed agenda items, open agenda; supporting papers for open agenda items; agendas of extraordinary meetings, supporting papers for extraordinary meetings).
Items addressed at every meeting are: the location of the meeting, attendees and apologies, matters arising, General Secretary's report, membership matters, education, employment policy, health and social policy, international, nursing policy, research and development, reports from national boards.
During 1993 the topics discussed by Council in open sessions include:
Staffing
Political update
A Charter for Staff Support
Association of Nursing Students
Congress
Disabled access to RCN buildings [historical terminology used in the meeting]
The new Institute of Advance Nursing Education
Career break membership
Enrolled nurse policy
Post registration education and practice
The topics discussed by Council in closed sessions include:
Financial
Scutari Projects Ltd
Institute of Advance Nursing Education
RCN membership services
Awards committee
This record relates to two separate sets of minutes: one set covers three bound volumes containing copies of the original papers, which are indexed. These volumes are kept in Store A.
The other set consists of original loose, single-sided papers, including supporting papers. These are unindexed. These papers are kept in Store B.
Access Information
This collection is available for research. Readers are advised to contact the RCN Archives in advance of their first visit.
Other Finding Aids
Most recent online Royal College of Nursing Archives Catalogue is available at http://www.rcn.org.uk/development/library_and_heritage_services.
Conditions Governing Use
Royal College of Nursing
Custodial History
The main bulk of volumes came from London library historical collection to Edinburgh with the Archives' collections in 1992. Library maintained a copy set. From 1992 up until 2009 the papers were transferred directly by Council and Committee Admin (previously 'General Secretariat', or 'General Secretary's Office') One copy went to RCN Library for binding and the original to Archives, unbound. In January 2017 the two sets were brought together to create one full run of papers and an additional run, with copies of most years. The more complete set is held in Store A and the less complete set in Store B.