Minutes of the Royal College of Nursing Council meetings

Reference:GB 1199 RCN2/1/1988
Dates of Creation:1988
Name of Creator:
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Scope and Content
Meetings were held in January, February, March, June, July, September and November.
Items addressed at every meeting are: minutes of the meeting, agenda, the location of the meeting, attendees and apologies, matters arising, correspondence, Congress, membership matters, education, employment policy, health and social policy, international, nursing policy, research and development, reports from national boards.
During 1988 the topics discussed by Council in open sessions include:
Recent developments in the NHS
Congress
Daphne Heald Research Unit scientific advisory group
Criteria for creating sub-branches
RCN publications
A nursing fund
Initiatives related to smoking prevention
'Safer in Our Hands' campaign
Industrial action
Project 2000
RCN commission on the NHS
Youth training scheme
The support worker
The topics discussed by Council in confidential sessions include:
RCN membership services
GMB/APEX amalgamation
Appointment of the General Secretary-Designate
Standards of Care project
National nurses' fund
Indexed.
This record relates to two separate sets of minutes: the original set is signed and covers two volumes. These volumes are kept in Store B.
The other set is a copy of the original, and also covers two volumes. These volumes are kept in Store A.
Access Information
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Other Finding Aids
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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.