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Catalogue description Treasury and successors: Medical Service and successors: Registered Files (MED Series)
| Reference: | T 307 |
|---|---|
| Title: | Treasury and successors: Medical Service and successors: Registered Files (MED Series) |
| Description: |
Files of the Treasury Medical Service and successor bodies, registered in the MED series. Subjects covered include general aspects of medical health services supplied to government departments, reviews of medical services, the development, function and organisation of the Service, inspection and supervision in areas of likely hazard, and service abroad, and the Report of the Committee on the Civil Service, (Fulton Report). |
| Date: | 1959-1981 |
| Arrangement: |
Original numerical sequence of creating body has been followed |
| Related material: |
For files of the later Civil Service Occupational Health Service and the Civil Service Occupational Health and Safety Agency see |
| Held by: | The National Archives, Kew |
| Former reference in its original department: | MED file series |
| Legal status: | Public Record(s) |
| Language: | English |
| Creator: |
Civil Service Department, Medical Advisory Service, 1969-1981 Treasury Medical Service, 1948-1969 |
| Physical description: | 25 file(s) |
| Access conditions: | Subject to 30 year closure unless otherwise stated |
| Immediate source of acquisition: |
Cabinet Office |
| Custodial history: | Files of the Treasury Medical Service were transferred to the Civil Service Department, Medical Advisory Service in 1968, then to the Office of the Minister of the Civil Service (OMCS), Medical Advisory Service in 1981, and to the Office of the Minister of the Civil Service (OMCS), Occupational Health Service (OHS) on its creation in 1986. The OHS passed under the control of the OMCS's successor, Office of Public Service and Science in 1992. The OHS was later renamed the Office of Public Service and Science, Civil Service Occupational Health and Safety Agency in 1994, from where the files were transferred to the Public Record Office from 1996. |
| Accruals: | Series is accruing |
| Administrative / biographical background: |
The Treasury Medical Service was set up in 1948 to deal with the occupational medical requirements of the Civil Service. In 1969, the Service passed to the Civil Service Department, where it was known as the Medical Advisory Service. When the Civil Service Department was abolished in 1981, the Medical Advisory Service passed under the control of the Office of the Minister of the Civil Service (OMCS) within the Cabinet Office. |
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