Record revealed
Letter from a ‘destitute’ man to the Poor Law Commission
In this letter, Thomas Henshaw of Derbyshire complained of his treatment by local officials who denied him welfare despite his ‘most distressing’ situation.
Series
Department of Health and Social Security and predecessors: Central Management Services:...
Catalogue reference: BN 34
What's it about?
BN 34
Reports on means to improve the efficiency of particular services within the Department of Health and Social Security (DHSS) and the National Health Service, and reviews of existing systems, including the payment of supplementary benefits,...
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 34
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Title (The name of the record)
- Department of Health and Social Security and predecessors: Central Management Services: Organisation and Methods Reports
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1959-1985
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Description (What the record is about)
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Reports on means to improve the efficiency of particular services within the Department of Health and Social Security (DHSS) and the National Health Service, and reviews of existing systems, including the payment of supplementary benefits, pensions and allowances.
Some of these reports pre-date the creation of DHSS and Central Management Services (CMS). They were preserved as source material by CMS.
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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 and Social Security, ADP and OEM Division, 1968-1978
- Department of Health and Social Security, Central Management Services, 1978-1988
- Ministry of Health, 1919-1968
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 73 files and volumes
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
- 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 1987 Department for Work and Pensions
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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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Accruals (Indicates whether the archive expects to receive further records in future)
- Series is not 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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Central Management Services Branch (CMS) was set up in 1978 to provide management services to both the Department of Health and Social Security (DHSS) and the National Health Service (NHS). One of its functions was to undertake special enquiries, at the request of DHSS and NHS units, into means of improving the efficiency of procedures. These enquiries were titled Organisation and Methods (O&M) assignments. The completed reports were solely intended to give advice and guidance. Before 1978, these services were provided separately by O&M (General) Branch and O&M (NHS) Branch, as part of the ADP and O&M Division of DHSS.
Originally, assignments were wide-ranging and detailed; subsequently, in the interest of economy, their scope became more limited, with minimal field work. From 1984, responsibility for such assignments in the NHS passed to NHS Management Consultancy Services (NHSMCS).
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C2967/
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