Series
Ministry of Health and Department of Health and Social Security: Committee on Safety...
Catalogue reference: MH 171
What's it about?
MH 171
This series contains files covering the work of the Committee on Safety of Drugs and its successor the Committee on Safety of Medicines.
Full description and record details
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
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MH 171
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Title (The name of the record)
- Ministry of Health and Department of Health and Social Security: Committee on Safety of Drugs and Committee on Safety of Medicines: Registered Files (CSD and CSM Series)
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Date (When the record was created)
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1963-1976
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series contains files covering the work of the Committee on Safety of Drugs and its successor the Committee on Safety of Medicines.
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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For files of the Medicines Commission, also established by the Medicines Act, see BN 38
Minutes and papers of the Committee on Safety of Medicines are in BN 116
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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)
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CSD file series
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Legal status (A note as to whether the record being described is a Public Record or not)
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Public Record(s)
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Language (The language of the record)
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English
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Creator(s) (The creator of the record)
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- Committee on Safety of Drugs, 1963-1968
- Committee on Safety of Medicines, 1970-1970
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
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67 file(s)
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
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Subject to 30 year closure
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Immediate source of acquisition (When and where the record was acquired from)
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from 1998 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)
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Transferred to the Department of Health in 1988.
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Accruals (Indicates whether the archive expects to receive further records in future)
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Series is accruing.
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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 Committee on Safety of Drugs was set up in 1963 and was replaced in 1968 by the Committee on Safety of Medicines following the Medicines Act, 1968. The secretariat was supplied by the Medicines, Food and Environmental Health Division of the Department of the Department of Health and Social Security Branch 2 established the same year. Analysis and professional advice was provided by the Medical PE3 Division.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C11009/
Catalogue hierarchy
This record is held at The National Archives, Kew
Within the department: MH
Records created or inherited by the Ministry of Health and successors, Local Government...
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Ministry of Health and Department of Health and Social Security: Committee on Safety of Drugs and Committee on Safety of Medicines: Registered Files (CSD and CSM Series)