Catalogue description General Register Office: National Health Service Central Register: Correspondence and Papers

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Title: General Register Office: National Health Service Central Register: Correspondence and Papers
Description:

Instructions, memoranda and specimen forms used by the National Health Service Central Register, and papers dealing with staffing, cost and organisation.
Date: 1947-1986
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Creator:

General Register Office, National Health Service Central Register, 1953-1970

National Health Service, 1948-

Office for National Statistics, 1996-

Office of National Statistics, National Health Service Central Register, 1996-

Office of Population Censuses and Surveys, National Health Service Central Register, 1970-1996
Physical description: 92 file(s)
Access conditions: Open unless otherwise stated
Immediate source of acquisition:

From 1989 Office for National Statistics
Accruals: Series is accruing
Administrative / biographical background:

With the discontinuance of National Registration in February 1952, the Central National Registration Office (CNRO) became the National Health Service Central Register (NHSCR). Its main purpose is to help Family Practitioner Committees (formerly Executive Councils) of the NHS to carry out their registration work effectively. By maintaining a central register of all NHS patients in England and Wales, by controlling the issue of new NHS numbers, and by disseminating the information relating to patients who have died, left the country, joined the armed forces, etc, the NHSCR operates to minimise the inflation of doctors' lists. The NHSCR, has been run on an agency basis for the benefit of the NHS since 1951.

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