Catalogue description Cabinet Office: Management and Personnel Office: Civil Service Medical Advisory Service, Registered Files (MAS Series)

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Details of CAB 174
Reference: CAB 174
Title: Cabinet Office: Management and Personnel Office: Civil Service Medical Advisory Service, Registered Files (MAS Series)
Description:

Policy and guidance to government departments and civil servants on medical matters, such as the risks of contracting Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS).

Date: 1982-1988
Related material:

Earlier registered files of the Medical Advisory Service

Later files are in HX

T 307

Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Former reference in its original department: MAS file series
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Creator:

Civil Service Medical Advisory Service, 1982-1986

Civil Service Occupational Health Service, 1986-1994

Physical description: 5 file(s)
Access conditions: Subject to 30 year closure
Immediate source of acquisition:

In 1996 Civil Service Occupational Health and Safety Agency

Accruals: Series is not accruing
Administrative / biographical background:

The Medical Advisory Service, that had been part of the Civil Service Department until its abolition in 1981, became part of the Cabinet Office (Management and Personnel Office) in November 1982 and altered its title to the Civil Service Medical Advisory Service. Following a scrutiny report which recommended the merger of the Civil Service Medical Advisory Service and the Ministry of Defence Civilian Medical Service, the creation of the Civil Service Occupational Health Service (OHS) was announced in June 1986.

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