Minutes of the Royal College of Nursing Council meetings

Reference:GB 1199 RCN2/1/1991
Dates of Creation:1991
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Scope and Content
Meetings were held every few months, in January, March, July and September. Each meeting is split into open and closed sessions (minutes of open session, minutes of closed session, agenda of open session, meeting papers for open sessions, agenda of closed session, meeting papers for closed session).
Items addressed at every meeting are: the location of the meeting, attendees and apologies, matters arising, General Secretary's report, Congress, membership matters, education, employment policy, health and social policy, international, nursing policy, research and development, reports from national boards.
During 1991 the topics discussed by Council in open sessions include:
National vocational qualifications in health
Living wills
Junior doctors hours
Enrolled nurses
Royal garden party
75th anniversary of the Royal College of Nursing
Support for stewards
Terms and conditions for nurse teachers
The topics discussed by Council in closed sessions include:
Industrial action in special hospitals
Gulf crisis
Community nursing
RCN/BBC projects
Health manifesto
Structure of council
Health care assistants
Indexed.
This record relates to two separate sets of minutes: the original set 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
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.