Catalogue description Department of Health: Research and Development in Health and Personal Social Services: Registered Files

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Details of JA 367
Reference: JA 367
Title: Department of Health: Research and Development in Health and Personal Social Services: Registered Files
Description:

This series contains files relating to research and development in health and personal social services, including research into the representation of children in civil proceedings, Childhood Cancer Research Group, National Children's Bureau research in to adoption allowances and research into equal opportunities for women in the NHS. It also contains studies of the development of Hepatitis B vaccine, a comparative study of the care of terminally ill cancer patients, the study of women's compliance with early detection of breast cancer programmes and the economic evaluation of the Trial of Early Detection of Breast Cancer (TEDBC), the community study of asthma, study of factors determining patterns of alcoholic liver disease; investigation into the role of physiotherapy in the care of adults with mental health problems, the Committee on Medical Aspects of Radiation in the Environment (COMARE) papers and the study of the use and validity of NHS performance indicators

Date: 1975-2002
Separated material:

Files in the JR prefix were previously accessioned into

MH 166

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

Department of Health, 1988-

Department of Health and Social Security, 1968-1988

Physical description: 847 file(s)
Access conditions: Open unless otherwise stated
Immediate source of acquisition:

From 2015 Department of Health

Custodial history: File series was in use by File Office 164 from at least 1980, according to Central File Registry records. No record made of when prefix was closed.
Selection and destruction information: Files selected include those containing subjects of enduring interest where either: research was not known to be published; or if published, they include significant unpublished background material; or records of research group meetings.
Accruals: Series is accruing.

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