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Department of Health and Social Security: Regional Health Authorities: Files
Catalogue reference: BN 23
What's it about?
BN 23
Correspondence, reports, and minutes of meetings between the Department of Health and Social Security and Regional Health Authority officials.The series also includes papers relating to an enquiry into the working of the department in relation to...
Full description and record details
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- BN 23
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Title (The name of the record)
- Department of Health and Social Security: Regional Health Authorities: Files
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1974-1991
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Description (What the record is about)
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Correspondence, reports, and minutes of meetings between the Department of Health and Social Security and Regional Health Authority officials.
The series also includes papers relating to an enquiry into the working of the department in relation to Regional Health Authorities.
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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)
- Department of Health and Social Security, 1968-1988
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 40 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 1985 Department of Health and Social Security
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Subjects (Categories and themes found in our collection (our subject list is under development, and some records may have no subjects or fewer than expected))
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- Topics
- National Health Service
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Accruals (Indicates whether the archive expects to receive further records in future)
- 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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Under the National Health Service Reorganisation Act 1973 Regional Health Authorities replaced Regional Hospital Boards. The authorities were similar though not identical in function to the Boards and did not always cover the same geographical areas.
The authorities each consisted of a chairman appointed by the Secretary of State for Social Services and of such number of other members, appointed by him, as he thought fit. In making the appointments it was the duty of the Secretary of State, under Schedule 1 of the 1973 Act, to consult local authorities, universities, such bodies as were representative of medical practitioners, dental practitioners, nurses, midwives etc. and voluntary organisations.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C2956/
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