Collection GB 0120 GC/164 - Save a Life Campaign

11 boxes

GB 0120 GC/164 1985-1988 Collection 11 boxes Save a Life Campaign

The campaign was launched in Sep 1986. It was co-ordinated centrally from the Royal Society of Medicine, with each county in England having at least one area co-ordinator. Scotland, Wales and Ireland also had co-ordinators. In conjunction with countrywide classes the BBC ran a series of 10 minute programmes, with sequences using the life-saving techniques. The programmes were repeated a further four times. The campaign closed end of Mar 1988 due to lack of finance, although some areas continued training people who were interested, and the Royal Society of Medicine continued to produce booklets for sale. For a more detailed history of the campaign see H.1.

The Archivist at the Royal Society of Medicine gave these papers to the Contemporary Medical Archives Centre in July 1994. They chart the development and progress of the Save-a-Life Campaign, a scheme sponsored by the Royal Society of Medicine, and other bodies including the government. The aim was to train members of the public in the techniques of first-aid in an emergency situation.

Correspondence, press cuttings and records of establishment and administration of first aid courses in this campaign sponsored by the Royal Society of Medicine, 1985-1988.

Very little re-arrangement of the papers has taken place, other than putting them into a usable order, either alphabetical or chronological. There seemed to be no system to the correspondence files (see D), as some were given an alphabetical sequence but most were not. The files have all been weeded of ephemeral and other material not worthy of historical preservation.

Open. The papers are available subject to the usual conditions of access to Archives and Manuscripts material, after the completion of a Reader's Undertaking.

Photocopies/photographs/microfilm are supplied for private research only at the Archivist's discretion. Please note that material may be unsuitable for copying on conservation grounds, and that photographs cannot be photocopied in any circumstances. Readers are restricted to 100 photocopies in twelve months. Researchers who wish to publish material must seek copyright permission from the copyright owner.

English

Wellcome Library catalogue online.

Entry compiled by Barbara Ball from the Wellcome Library online catalogue.

Compiled in compliance with 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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The Archivist at the Royal Society of Medicine gave these papers to the Contemporary Medical Archives Centre in July 1994. They chart the development and progress of the Save-a-Life Campaign, a scheme sponsored by the Royal Society of Medicine, and other bodies including the government. The aim was to train members of the public in the techniques of first-aid in an emergency situation.

Correspondence, press cuttings and records of establishment and administration of first aid courses in this campaign sponsored by the Royal Society of Medicine, 1985-1988.

Very little re-arrangement of the papers has taken place, other than putting them into a usable order, either alphabetical or chronological. There seemed to be no system to the correspondence files (see D), as some were given an alphabetical sequence but most were not. The files have all been weeded of ephemeral and other material not worthy of historical preservation.

Open. The papers are available subject to the usual conditions of access to Archives and Manuscripts material, after the completion of a Reader's Undertaking.

Photocopies/photographs/microfilm are supplied for private research only at the Archivist's discretion. Please note that material may be unsuitable for copying on conservation grounds, and that photographs cannot be photocopied in any circumstances. Readers are restricted to 100 photocopies in twelve months. Researchers who wish to publish material must seek copyright permission from the copyright owner.

• English

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English

Wellcome Library catalogue online.

Compiled in compliance with 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.

• English