Minutes of the Royal College of Nursing Council meetings

• Reference:GB 1199 RCN2/1/1973
• Dates of Creation:1973
• 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, October 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 1973 the topics discussed by Council include:

  Transfer of students to full membership

  Smoking and health

  NHS reorganisation

  Preservation of historical documents (History of Nursing Society)

  RCN motif

  Nurses and midwives Whitley council

  Reorganisation of the membership structure

  Discipline in nurses' homes

  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, which has been split into two volumes. These volumes are kept in Store A.

  There is an additional folder containing agendas and action sheets for each meeting, 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.