Series
Department of Health: Infectious Diseases and Blood Policy: Files Submitted in Evidence...
Catalogue reference: JA 418
What's it about?
JA 418
This series contains files submitted in evidence by the Infectious Diseases and Blood Policy branch of the Department of Health to the Penrose Inquiry.
Full description and record details
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- JA 418
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Title (The name of the record)
- Department of Health: Infectious Diseases and Blood Policy: Files Submitted in Evidence to the Penrose Inquiry
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1971-2006
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series contains files submitted in evidence by the Infectious Diseases and Blood Policy branch of the Department of Health to the Penrose Inquiry.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- These records are not the records of the Penrose Inquiry itself and the covering dates of the series reflect the dates of the records not the Inquiry
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Arrangement (Information about the filing sequence or logical order of the record)
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References for born digital records are automatically generated and display a 'Z' after a forward slash, which distinguish them from traditional references allocated to paper and digitised records.
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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The records of the Inquiry are in the process of being transferred to the National Records of Scotland.
For the Penrose Inquiry website, please see: JA 531
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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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, 1988-1988
- Department of Health and Social Security, 1968-1988
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 287 digital record(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 2016 Department of Health
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Accruals (Indicates whether the archive expects to receive further records in future)
- No further accruals are anticipated.
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Selection and destruction information (Information about how the record was selected for archiving)
- The Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Public Health requested that all files submitted by her department to the Scottish Public Inquiry into contaminated blood supplies (Penrose Inquiry) should be preserved and transferred early to TNA to coincide with the publication of the report of the inquiry, so that it would form part of the Government's response to Lord Penrose's report
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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 Penrose Inquiry, chaired by Lord Penrose, was a Scottish Public Inquiry into Hepatitis C/HIV acquired infection from NHS treatment in Scotland with blood and blood products. It was set up under the Inquiries Act 2005 and was announced by Nicola Sturgeon MSP, the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Wellbeing, on 23 April 2008.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C14522322/
Catalogue hierarchy
This record is held at The National Archives, Kew
Within the department: JA
Records created or inherited by the Department of Health (1988-)
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Department of Health: Infectious Diseases and Blood Policy: Files Submitted in Evidence to the Penrose Inquiry