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Ministry of Health and Department of Health and Social Security: Local Authority...

Catalogue reference: MH 156

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MH 156

This series contains files from File Office E, covering local authority services, including ambulances, home helps, child welfare and welfare foods. This series also includes files concerning the Confidential Enquiries into Maternal Deaths in...

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Reference
MH 156
Title
Ministry of Health and Department of Health and Social Security: Local Authority Services, Registered Files (File Office E Series)
Date
1947-1994
Description

This series contains files from File Office E, covering local authority services, including ambulances, home helps, child welfare and welfare foods. This series also includes files concerning the Confidential Enquiries into Maternal Deaths in England and Wales, and papers relating to NHS reorganisation, and the Briggs Committee on Nursing. Also included are files relating to a number of Central Health Services Council (CHSC) committees.

Related material

For further files relating to the Central Health Services Council (CHSC) committees see MH 133

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
File Office E series
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
English
Creator(s)
  • Department of Health and Social Security, 1968-1988
  • Ministry of Health, 1919-1968
Physical description
638 file(s)
Access conditions
Open unless otherwise stated
Immediate source of acquisition

From 1992 Department of Health

Accruals
Series is accruing
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C10994/

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Ministry of Health and Department of Health and Social Security: Local Authority Services, Registered Files (File Office E Series)