Catalogue description Ministry of Health and Department of Health and Social Security: Supply Division: Registered Files (File Office R Series)

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Reference: MH 168
Title: Ministry of Health and Department of Health and Social Security: Supply Division: Registered Files (File Office R Series)
Description:

This series contains File Office series files from File Office R, which served the Supplies Division. Contains files concerning the supply of drugs, appliances, and equipment in the National Health Service. The topics are wide-ranging, and include a review of the NHS medical stockpile, the organisation of hospital supplies, the supply of poliomyelitis vaccines, packaging and pricing of drugs, economies in prescribing, thalidomide, and the provision of artificial limbs.

Also includes papers relating to the Drugs Prices Control Voluntary Price Regulation Scheme and the relationship between the department and the pharmaceutical industry.
Date: 1954-1994
Arrangement:

In former reference order
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Former reference in its original department: File Office R series
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Creator:

Department of Health and Social Security, Supplies Division, 1968-1988

Ministry of Health, Supplies Division, 1947-1968
Physical description: 283 file(s)
Access conditions: Open unless otherwise stated
Immediate source of acquisition:

From 2000 Department of Health
Custodial history: Transferred to the Department of Health in 1988.
Selection and destruction information: Only policy material has been selected for this series. Ephemeral material, including day-to-day financial transactions, orders, invoices, etc. have been destroyed.
Accruals: Series is accruing.
Administrative / biographical background:

The Supplies Division was responsible for overseeing the supply of prescription drugs, appliances and equipment in the National Health Service, and the provision of innovative treatment methods (such as the use of lasers in surgery).

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