Catalogue description Welsh Office: Health and Social Work Department: Registered Files (EHC Series)

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Reference: BD 121
Title: Welsh Office: Health and Social Work Department: Registered Files (EHC Series)
Description:

This series contains records relating to the implications of devolution to a Welsh Assembly on the provision of health care for the elderly and chronically sick.
Date: 1968-1976
Arrangement:

The records are arranged chronologically in file prefix order.
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Former reference in its original department: EHC Series
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Creator:

Welsh Office, Health and Social Work Department, 1973-1984
Physical description: 2 file(s)
Access conditions: Open
Immediate source of acquisition:

in 2014 Welsh Government
Accumulation dates: 1974 to 1976
Selection and destruction information: RCP - s.3.1.1 The principal policies and actions of the UK central government and English and Welsh Governments. Only records that illustrate the devolution of health functions to a proposed new Welsh Assembly have been preserved from this file series.
Accruals: No further accruals are expected.
Administrative / biographical background:

In April 1969 the Welsh Office took over responsibility for the health and welfare services in Wales from the Department of Health and Social Security.

In April 1974 the administrative structure of the National Health Service in Wales was reorganised in two tiers under the provisions of the National Health Service (Reorganisation) Act 1973. Centrally, the Secretary of State for Wales has responsibility for health services through the Health and Social Work Department of the Welsh office and responsibility for the day to day running of the services falls to area health authorities.

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