Minutes of the Royal College of Nursing Council meetings

• Reference:GB 1199 RCN2/1/1965
• Dates of Creation:1965
• 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, March, April, May, July, September, October and December. 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 1965 the topics discussed by Council include:

  Welfare of nurses in adversity

  Recruitment

  Publication of College salary scales

  Accommodation of the College

  Nation's Fund for Nurses

  Coat of Arms

  Golden Jubilee 1966

  Registration of clinical instructors

  Cervical cancer prevention campaign

  RCN flag

  Minimum age of entry to nurse training

  Nurses and midwives Whitley Council

  Extension of membership to Enrolled Nurses, Student and Pupil Nurses

  Register of retired nurses

  South Wales pit disaster (Cambrian Colliery)

  Edith Cavell memorial service

  Founders Day celebrations

  Extra beds in hospital wards

  RCN official staff

  Guide to nursing establishments

  A Reform of Nursing Education

  RCN conferences

  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 21 Jan to 29 Jul 1965, and the other from 29 Jul to 16 Dec 1965. 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.