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Catalogue reference: MH 148

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MH 148

This series contains files from File Office A, which served the Administration and Social Security Operations Group (International Relations, Statistics and Research), Services Development Group (Public and Environmental Health), and Manpower...

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MH 148

Title
Ministry of Health and Department of Health and Social Security: Administration of Public and Environmental Health Services, Registered Files (File Office A Series)
Date

1948-2005

Description

This series contains files from File Office A, which served the Administration and Social Security Operations Group (International Relations, Statistics and Research), Services Development Group (Public and Environmental Health), and Manpower Intelligence Division of the Department of Health and Social Security and its predecessors at the Ministry of Health. The subjects covered include chemists' remuneration, medical examinations of Commonwealth immigrants, congenital abnormalities associated with thalidomide, pollution, fluoridation of the water supply, health aspects of meat, egg and milk products, irradiation of food and food hygiene, aspects of port healthcare, reciprocal agreements in healthcare with other countries, medical aspects of food policy, NHS computer policy and development, specific diseases such as smallpox, and the papers and report of the DHSS study team on statistics, led by Sir Derek Rayner.

Related material

Earlier minutes of Regional Medical Officers meetings can be found in MH 163

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference

File Office A series

Legal status

Public Record(s)

Language

English

Creator(s)
  • Department of Health, 1988-1988
  • Department of Health and Social Security, 1968-1988
  • Department of Health and Social Security, Administration and Social Security Operations Group, 1976-1988
  • Department of Health and Social Security, Manpower Intelligence Division, 1968-1988
  • Department of Health and Social Security, Services Development Group, 1976-1986
  • European Agency for the Evaluation of Medicinal Products, 1995-2004
  • European Economic Community, 1958-1993
  • European Medicines Agency, The Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use, 2004-2025
  • Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency, 2003-2003
  • Ministry of Health, 1919-1968
Physical description

1539 file(s)

Access conditions

Open unless otherwise stated

Immediate source of acquisition

From 1994 Department of Health

Accruals

Series is accruing

Administrative / biographical background

The Committee for Proprietary Medicinal Products (CPMP) was an EEC Committee.EEC Directive concerning the establishment of the CPMP was adopted in 1975. TheEEC Directive 75/319/EEC provided for the institution of the Committee forProprietary Medicinal Products. Article 8 of the Directive described thepurpose of the CPMP as being to facilitate the adoption of a common position bythe Member States with regard to decisions on the issuing of marketingauthorizations, thereby promoting the free movement of proprietary medicinalproducts. The most important task of the CPMP was to advise the competentauthorities in the cases in which the so-called “Multi-State procedure” wasfollowed. The rules governing the “Multi-State-procedure” were set out inDirective 75/319/EEC, and amended by Directive 83/570/EEC. In 1995 the EuropeanMedicines Agency came into operation (established in 1993 by EC Regulation No.2309/93 as the European Agency for the Evaluation of Medicinal Products, andrenamed by EC Regulation No. 726/2004 to the European Medicines Agency). In May2004 EMA changed the name of The Committee for Proprietary Medicinal Products(CPMP) to The Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use (CHMP), as theEuropean Medicines Agency's committee responsible for elaborating the agency'sopinions on all issues regarding medicinal products for human use.

Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C10986/

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