Fonds GB 1538 RCOG/B31 - Professional Standards Committee (later Professional and Clinical Standards Committee)

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Reference code

GB 1538 RCOG/B31

Title

Professional Standards Committee (later Professional and Clinical Standards Committee)

Date(s)

  • 2001-2007 (Creation)

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Fonds

Extent and medium

2 boxes and 1 volume

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Name of creator

Biographical history

The Committee held its first meeting in July 2001. It was established 'in response to the need for standards and benchmarks required by various external agencies as well as to assist Fellows and Members discharge their general clinical governance duties.' It had three key areas of responsibility: engagement with the National Health Service and review of national policy-making; developing, implementing and monitoring clinical and service standards to ensure patient safety; developing, implementing and monitoring professional standards for good medical practice. The Committee reported to the Standards Board. In May 2007 it was renamed the Professional and Clinical Standards Committee and a College Officer charged with responsibility for each of its three key areas. Its further activities included: developing service models in line with College recommendations; ensuring implementation of College policy on performance and service reviews; establishing and overseeing the reskilling/refresher training policy.

Archival history

Several early catalogues were not transferred and are no longer extant.

GB 1538 RCOG/B31 2001-2007 fonds 2 boxes and 1 volume Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists

The Committee held its first meeting in July 2001. It was established 'in response to the need for standards and benchmarks required by various external agencies as well as to assist Fellows and Members discharge their general clinical governance duties.' It had three key areas of responsibility: engagement with the National Health Service and review of national policy-making; developing, implementing and monitoring clinical and service standards to ensure patient safety; developing, implementing and monitoring professional standards for good medical practice. The Committee reported to the Standards Board. In May 2007 it was renamed the Professional and Clinical Standards Committee and a College Officer charged with responsibility for each of its three key areas. Its further activities included: developing service models in line with College recommendations; ensuring implementation of College policy on performance and service reviews; establishing and overseeing the reskilling/refresher training policy.

Several early catalogues were not transferred and are no longer extant.

There is no documentation as to when or by whom these records were transferred to the College Archives.

Records of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists' Professional Standards Committee (later Professional and Clinical Standards Committee), Contains minutes (2001-2007), 2001-2007, comprising files on the administration of the committee (2000-2002) and a guidance publication produced by the committee in 2002.

Records which with certainty were identified as records of other committees have been moved to other series.

This material is no longer created as a separate series; copy minutes are now submitted to and retained with Council minutes and papers at A2.

As set out above in Scope and Content.

Open, although restrictions apply for items containing personal information.

English

DRCOG: The College Archives holds a card index to DRCOG passes from the 1940s to late 1998. The Head of the Examination Department also has an index to DRCOG passes and failures dating back to the 1940s. A database of DRCOG holders from 1990 is maintained by the Administration Department.

MRCOG: A database of MRCOG holders is maintained by the Membership Services Department. The database does not include Fellows or Members who died before 1990. The College Archives holds card indexes of deceased and living MRCOG holders between 1929 and 1998. The indexes note the date of admission to the FRCOG or MRCOG. A bi-annual Register of Fellows and Members (living only) is compiled by the Administration Department; copies are transferred regularly to the Archives and will be found at A12/1-3.

ODTS (overseas doctors' training scheme): A database of overseas doctors who have applied to sit the MRCOG is maintained by the ODTS Administrator. Once the doctors pass the MRCOG their names are removed from this database and added to the MRCOG database maintained by the Membership Services Department, with an annotation to indicate that they are overseas doctors.

Microfilm copy minutes of the Accreditation Committee, 1981-1984, are at MR/1.

Imported from the RCOG catalogue and edited by Sarah Drewery.

General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal Place and Corporate Names 1997.

Import: Oct 2008; edit: Feb 2009. Health policy Government Public administration Health services administration Organization and administration Professional practice Health National Health Service Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists

Immediate source of acquisition or transfer

There is no documentation as to when or by whom these records were transferred to the College Archives.

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Scope and content

Records of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists' Professional Standards Committee (later Professional and Clinical Standards Committee), Contains minutes (2001-2007), 2001-2007, comprising files on the administration of the committee (2000-2002) and a guidance publication produced by the committee in 2002.

Appraisal, destruction and scheduling

Records which with certainty were identified as records of other committees have been moved to other series.

Accruals

This material is no longer created as a separate series; copy minutes are now submitted to and retained with Council minutes and papers at A2.

System of arrangement

As set out above in Scope and Content.

Conditions of access and use area

Conditions governing access

Open, although restrictions apply for items containing personal information.

Conditions governing reproduction

Language of material

  • English

Script of material

  • Latin

Language and script notes

English

Physical characteristics and technical requirements

Finding aids

DRCOG: The College Archives holds a card index to DRCOG passes from the 1940s to late 1998. The Head of the Examination Department also has an index to DRCOG passes and failures dating back to the 1940s. A database of DRCOG holders from 1990 is maintained by the Administration Department.

MRCOG: A database of MRCOG holders is maintained by the Membership Services Department. The database does not include Fellows or Members who died before 1990. The College Archives holds card indexes of deceased and living MRCOG holders between 1929 and 1998. The indexes note the date of admission to the FRCOG or MRCOG. A bi-annual Register of Fellows and Members (living only) is compiled by the Administration Department; copies are transferred regularly to the Archives and will be found at A12/1-3.

ODTS (overseas doctors' training scheme): A database of overseas doctors who have applied to sit the MRCOG is maintained by the ODTS Administrator. Once the doctors pass the MRCOG their names are removed from this database and added to the MRCOG database maintained by the Membership Services Department, with an annotation to indicate that they are overseas doctors.

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Existence and location of originals

Existence and location of copies

Microfilm copy minutes of the Accreditation Committee, 1981-1984, are at MR/1.

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Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists

Rules and/or conventions used

General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal Place and Corporate Names 1997.

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Language(s)

  • English

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