Catalogue description Royal Commission on Medical Education (Todd Commission): Records

The Commission on Medical Education was appointed in 1965 and chaired by Lord Todd. Its terms of reference were: "To review medical education, undergraduate and postgraduate, in Great Britain, and in the light of national needs and resources, including technical assistance overseas, to advise Her Majesty's Government on what principles future development (including its planning and co-ordination) should be based; in particular, in the light of those principles and having regard to the statutory functions of the General Medical Council and the current review by that Council of recent changes in the undergraduate curriculum, to consider what changes may be needed in the pattern, number, nature or location of the institutions providing medical education or in its general content; and to report."

In addition, the commission instructed the Secretary to write to organisations and institutions with a particular interest in the enquiry, specifically inviting them to submit evidence.