Series
Ministry of Health and Department of Health and Social Security: Supply Division:...
Catalogue reference: MH 168
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MH 168
This series contains File Office series files from File Office R, which served the Supplies Division. Contains files concerning the supply of drugs, appliances, and equipment in the National Health Service. The topics are wide-ranging, and...
Full description and record details
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- MH 168
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Title (The name of the record)
- Ministry of Health and Department of Health and Social Security: Supply Division: Registered Files (File Office R Series)
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1954-1994
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series contains File Office series files from File Office R, which served the Supplies Division. Contains files concerning the supply of drugs, appliances, and equipment in the National Health Service. The topics are wide-ranging, and include a review of the NHS medical stockpile, the organisation of hospital supplies, the supply of poliomyelitis vaccines, packaging and pricing of drugs, economies in prescribing, thalidomide, and the provision of artificial limbs.
Also includes papers relating to the Drugs Prices Control Voluntary Price Regulation Scheme and the relationship between the department and the pharmaceutical industry.
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Arrangement (Information about the filing sequence or logical order of the record)
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Arrangement
In former reference order
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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Former department reference (Former identifier given by the originating creator)
- File Office R series
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Legal status (A note as to whether the record being described is a Public Record or not)
- Public Record(s)
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Language (The language of the record)
- English
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Creator(s) (The creator of the record)
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- Department of Health and Social Security, Supplies Division, 1968-1988
- Ministry of Health, Supplies Division, 1947-1968
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 283 file(s)
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
- Open unless otherwise stated
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Immediate source of acquisition (When and where the record was acquired from)
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From 2000 Department of Health
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Custodial history (Describes where and how the record has been held from creation to transfer to The National Archives)
- Transferred to the Department of Health in 1988.
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Accruals (Indicates whether the archive expects to receive further records in future)
- Series is accruing.
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Selection and destruction information (Information about how the record was selected for archiving)
- Only policy material has been selected for this series. Ephemeral material, including day-to-day financial transactions, orders, invoices, etc. have been destroyed.
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Administrative / biographical background (Historical or biographical information about the creator of the record and the context of its creation)
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The Supplies Division was responsible for overseeing the supply of prescription drugs, appliances and equipment in the National Health Service, and the provision of innovative treatment methods (such as the use of lasers in surgery).
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C11006/
Catalogue hierarchy
This record is held at The National Archives, Kew
Within the department: MH
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Ministry of Health and Department of Health and Social Security: Supply Division: Registered Files (File Office R Series)