Minutes of the Royal College of Nursing Council meetings

• Reference:GB 1199 RCN2/1/1963
• Dates of Creation:1963
• Name of Creator:
  Royal College of Nursing of the United Kingdom (1916-2018) Nursing organisation
• Physical Description:
  0.01m

• Scope and Content

  Meetings were held roughly monthly, with meetings in January, February, March, April, May, June, 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 1963 the topics discussed by Council include:

  European Common Market

  Ministry of health

  Research

  Economies in the health service

  Impartial review of the nursing profession

  Communication between the Council and the membership

  Salmon Committee

  Royal charter

  Committee structure and budgetary control

  Amalgamation of the Royal College of Nursing and the National Council of Nurses

  Accommodation

  Publicity

  Nursing staff ratios

  Nursing Mirror exhibition and conference

  Nursing and midwifery staff census

  Admission of members to Council meetings

  Nurses and midwives Whitley Council

  Associate membership

  Welfare of nurses in adversity

  Indexed.

  This record relates to two separate sets of minutes: the original set is signed. This volume is kept in Store B.

  The other set is a copy of the original, split into two volumes. One volume runs from 17 Jan to 9 May 1963, and the other from 5 Jun to 21 Nov 1963. These volumes are 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.