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Catalogue description Department of Health: Control of Infection in Hospitals: Registered Files
| Reference: | JA 431 |
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| Title: | Department of Health: Control of Infection in Hospitals: Registered Files |
| Description: |
This series contains files on the establishment of the Hospital Infection Working Group (HIWG). It also contains papers on the Comprehensive Spending Review (CSR); Hospital Acquired Infection (HAI); Antibiotic Resistant Bacteria (ARB); Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathies (TSE) and Chief Medical Officers files. |
| Date: | 1978-2010 |
| Related material: |
Related files in File Office B MH 149 |
| Held by: | The National Archives, Kew |
| Former reference in its original department: | CIH, COI and MXO prefixes |
| Legal status: | Public Record(s) |
| Language: | English |
| Creator: |
Department of Health, 1988- Department of Health and Social Security, 1968-1988 |
| Physical description: | 248 file(s) |
| Access conditions: | Open unless otherwise stated |
| Immediate source of acquisition: |
From 2018 Department of Health |
| Selection and destruction information: | CIH files not selected include copies of papers from published Inquiries and copies of PQ correspondence. COI files not selected include guidance material on inspection of hospital medical equipment and premises. |
| Accruals: | Series is accruing |
| Administrative / biographical background: |
The Hospital Infection Working Group (HIWG) was established following the review of guidance on the control of infection in hospitals, including proposals to build a high security infectious diseases unit and discussions on the closure of specialised smallpox hospitals |
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