Minutes of the Royal College of Nursing Council meetings

• Reference:GB 1199 RCN2/1/2002
• Dates of Creation:2002
• Name of Creator:
  Royal College of Nursing of the United Kingdom (1916-2017) Nursing organisation
• Physical Description:
  0.12m; 261 digital files

• Scope and Content

  Meetings were held every few months, in January, March, April, June, July, August, October and December. Each meeting is split into open and closed sessions (in the following format: open agenda; minutes of previous open meeting; supporting papers for open agenda items; closed agenda, minutes of previous closed meeting; supporting papers for closed agenda items).

  Items addressed at every meeting are: the location of the meeting, attendees and apologies, matters arising, administrative matters, staffing matters, committee and national boards' reports and a public affairs briefing.

  During 2002 the topics discussed by Council in open sessions include:

  Association of Nursing Students (ANS) constitution

  Presidential elections and election guidelines

  Congress

  Pay modernisation

  Diversity Group

  Past presidents' teleconference call

  Devolution - board constitutions and regulations

  Public private partnerships

  Long term care

  Change of title from professional facilitator to learning representative

  The expanding role of the private sector in NHS

  Presidential taskforce on educational policy

  This record relates to two separate sets of minutes: One set consists of a box of original loose papers, including supporting papers. Only the meetings in January, March, April, June and October exist in physical format. There are no bound volumes for this year.These papers are kept in Store A.

  A second set consists of digital minutes and papers.

  These papers are not indexed.

• Access Information

  This collection is available for research. Readers are advised to contact the RCN Archives in advance of their first visit. Any requests for access will be approved by the Head of Governance, due to the inclusion of sensitive information.

• 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.