Minutes of the Royal College of Nursing Council meetings

• Reference:GB 1199 RCN2/1/1981
• Dates of Creation:1981
• Name of Creator:
  Royal College of Nursing of the United Kingdom (1916-2018) Nursing organisation
• Physical Description:
  0.02m

• Scope and Content

  Meetings were held in January, March, May, July, September and November. They are arranged in the following order: minutes of the previous meeting, minutes of current meeting, agenda of current meeting, papers of current meeting.

  Items addressed at every meeting are: the location of the meeting, attendees and apologies, matters arising, correspondence, Congress, membership matters, reports from committees, reports from national boards, use of the seal, membership numbers.

  During 1981 the topics discussed by Council include:

  RCN Association of Nursing Education

  Industrial action

  Association of nursing students

  Winifred Raphael Memorial Lecture

  ICN Quadrennial Congress

  Employment policies

  Fellowships

  RCN policy on the private sector

  Professional nursing structure for the NHS

  Job evaluation

  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.

  There is an additional folder containing agendas and action sheets for each meeting, correspondence, amendments and miscellaneous reports which are not included in the bound volumes. This is kept in Store A.

• 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.