A Catalogue of the Papers of the Confederation of Health Service EmployeesTABLE OF CONTENTS |
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A Catalogue of the Papers of the Confederation of Health Service EmployeesConversion of this catalogue to electronic format was made possible by the Access to Archives programme, supported by the Heritage Lottery Fund. We are grateful for their support. Summary
Return to the Table of Contents Administrative/Biographical HistoryThe Confederation of Health Service Employees (COHSE) was formed in 1946 by the amalgamation of the Mental Hospital and Institutional Workers' Union and the Hospitals and Welfare Services Union. In 1993 it amalgamated with the National and Local Government Officers' Association and the National Union of Public Employees to form UNISON. Reference: M. Carpenter, All for One (COHSE: Banstead, 1980). Return to the Table of Contents Scope and ContentNational Executive Committee minutes, 1946-62, 1975-84; Finance and Organisation Committee minutes, 1951-69; Legal and Parliamentary Committee minutes, 1946-51; amalgamation file, 1945-46; post-war staffing crisis files; Health Services Journal, 1946-63 (incomplete); historian's papers; delegate conference papers, 1992-93. Return to the Table of Contents System of ArrangementThe Modern Records Centre uses a classification scheme. For further details of the scheme, see http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/services/library/mrc/holdings/class. It is compatible with ISAD(G): General International Standard Archival Description (2000). Return to the Table of Contents Administrative InformationImmediate Source of AcquisitionThe initial deposit was made by COHSE in October 1981. Subsequent deposits were made in 1985, 1987, 1988 and 1993. Appraisal, Destruction, SchedulingThis collection has been weeded for duplicates. AccrualsFurther deposits are expected. Access ConditionsThese papers are closed for twenty years. Copyright/ReproductionThere are no restrictions on the use of this archive, apart from the requirements of copyright law. Return to the Table of Contents Additional Sources of InformationFinding AidsA copy of this catalogue is available in paper format in the Centre's searchroom, at the National Register of Archives in London and in Chadwyck-Healey's National Inventory of Documentary Sources. An authority record exists for the Confederation of Health Service Employees (GB 0152 AAR1163). Related Units of DescriptionThe Centre also holds the archives of COHSE's predecessor unions (MSS.229) The Centre also holds the papers of UNISON (see http://www.warwick.ac.uk/services/library/mrc/ead/389col.htm for further information), NALGO (see http://www.warwick.ac.uk/services/library/mrc/ead/020nal.htm for further information) and NUPE (see http://www.warwick.ac.uk/services/library/mrc/ead/281.htm for further information). Return to the Table of Contents DescgrpPublication NoteThe official history of the union was written using material from the archive: M. Carpenter, All for One (COHSE: Banstead, 1980). Return to the Table of Contents Index Headings
Confederation of Health Service Employees
Hospitals -- Staff -- Labor unions -- Great Britain Return to the Table of Contents CatalogueMSS.229/COMSS.229/CO/1/1/1 1945 Dec - 1948 JunScope and ContentNat. Exec. Cttee.: vol. of signed, duplicated minutes, pasted-in. Commences with Jt. EC of both unions. Vol. also incl. some Finance Organ. Cttee. mins.; Health Services Jnl., Nov.1947 : report on 1st Deleg. Conf. MSS.229/CO/1/1/2 1948 Aug - 1950 AprScope and ContentVol. as above. Incl. minutes of 1 Grand Council mtg. [loose in vol. : 2 specimens of HWSU organiser's expenses voucher.] MSS.229/CO/1/2/1 1946 Jan - DecScope and ContentCOHSE Legal Parliamentary Cttee.: bound vol. of signed, duplicated mins. In addition to individual cases, the business includes reports of deputations to Minr. of Health, exchange of corres. on Nat. Health Service Bill, consideration of Nat. Insurance Bill. MSS.229/CO/1/2/2 1947 Feb - DecScope and ContentCOHSE Legal Parliamentary Cttee.: bound vol. of signed, duplicated mins. Incl. some copy corres. and opinions MSS.229/CO/1/2/3 1948 Feb - NovScope and ContentCOHSE Legal Parliamentary Cttee.: bound vol. of signed, duplicated mins. MSS.229/CO/1/2/4 1949 Jan - NovScope and ContentCOHSE Legal Parliamentary Cttee.: bound vol. of signed, duplicated mins MSS.229/CO/1/2/5 1950 Jan - 1951 NovScope and ContentCOHSE Legal Parliamentary Cttee.: bound vol of signed, duplicated mins MSS.229/CO/1/3/1 1951 Jan - 1961 NovScope and ContentCOHSE Finance Organisation Cttee.: ring-binder of signed,' duplicated minutes. Also includes some reports, e.g. on organisation in N. Ireland, Dec 1950; COHSE Staff Side application, Dec 1950; reports on regions. MSS.229/CO/1/3/2 1961 Aug - 1969 NovScope and ContentCOHSE Finance Organisation Cttee.: Kalamazoo binder of signed, duplicated minutes. Also includes District Secretaries' reports and reports on regions. MSS.229/CO/3/1/1-36 1910 - 1946Scope and ContentCohse file entitled "Draft rules, and matters relating to the amalgamation". Contents include MSS.229/CO/3/1/1-2 1910 Scope and ContentCounty of London Asylums Cttee.: rpt. of Special (Superannuation Act) Sub-cttee. and statement of pay rates. MSS.229/CO/3/1/4 1944 Oct 10 Scope and ContentHWSU : circ. to accompany terms of proposed amalgamation. MSS.229/CO/3/1/5/1-2 [1944] Scope and ContentMHIWU/HWSU : pr HWSU : pr. Report recommendations of Jt. Cttees. re amalgamation. MSS.229/CO/3/1/6/1-3 1945 Nov 17 Scope and ContentMHIWU/HSWU : pr. 7 pp. circ. re formation of COHSE. MSS.229/CO/3/1/7-8 (1945 Dec 8) Scope and ContentMHIWU/HWSU : notice and agenda [annotated] of mtg. of jt. execs. MSS.229/CO/3/1/10 1945 Dec 12 Scope and ContentHWSU : copy 1tr. to Area Secs. re nominees to Regional Councils for Hospitals. MSS.229/CO/3/1/13/1-3 1946 Jan 5 Scope and ContentCOHSE : circ. to regional secs. re Regional Councils and NEC elections. MSS.229/CO/3/1/14/1-4 1946 Jan 9 Scope and ContentConf. re administration and staffing of COHSE : MS. notes [outline], TS. notes [detailed], TS. memo., MS. staff list [of HWSU], incl. dates of birth and service, position and salary. MSS.229/CO/3/1/15-16 1946 Jan 22 Scope and ContentCOHSE : circs. to regional secs, re monthly statements and reports, and meeting expenses. MSS.229/CO/3/1/18-19 1946 Feb 13 Scope and ContentCOHSE : No.11 Regional Council : notice and agenda of mtg. MSS.229/CO/3/1/21 1946 Jun Scope and ContentCOHSE : Special Sub-cttee. on staffing of COHSE : dupl. Interim Report. MSS.229/CO/3/1/22 1946 Jul 9 Scope and ContentCOHSE : Inst. of Hosp. Administrators : dupl. rpt. of informal discussions. MSS.229/CO/3/1/22-36 Scope and ContentNo. 3 Region The following corres. and papers appear to be those of Ald. E.A. Hardy, No.3 Regional Organiser of HWSU [the entire file may have originated with him]: Address list; file title list; corres., Dec 1945 - Jan 1946, re alterations in regional administration consequent on establishment of COHSE. MSS.229/CO/4/1/1-5 COHSE: Health Services Journal : bound vols.MSS.229/CO/4/1/11 1957 Scope and ContentHealth Services Journal Loose in vol.: handbill for Festival of Women, Wembley, 7-29 Jun. MSS.229/CO/4/2/1-3 COHSE : Miscellaneous publications.MSS.229/CO/4/2/1 1956 May Scope and Content26 pp. booklet : names addresses of NEC members, officers, regional branch secs. MSS.229/CO/4/2/2/1-4 1958 Oct 30 Scope and ContentConf. on human relationships between Hospital Service and other parts of NHS : programme and 3 pr. pages. MSS.229/CO/4/2/3 1960 Scope and Content1910-1960 fifty years of progress : 24 pp. booklet : address list, plus brief chronology of COHSE's evolution. Return to the Table of Contents MSS.229/6/C/COMSS.229/6/C/CO/1/1-12 Minutes, dupl. and unsigned.MSS.229/6/C/CO/1/10 1973 Sep - 1977 Jul Scope and ContentEducation Committee: mins.; agendas; rpts,; memoranda; and, MS. notes of N. Grant. MSS.229/6/C/CO/1/11 1971 Feb - 1976 Nov Scope and ContentFinance and Organisation Committee: agendas; rpts.; financial statements; and MS. notes of N. Grant. MSS.229/6/C/CO/1/12 1965 Nov - 1967 Apr Scope and ContentRegional Re-organisation Sub-Cttee: mins.; rpts.; memoranda; membership statistics. [File of F. J. Lynch?] MSS.229/6/C/CO/3/1/1-27 1953-5Scope and ContentMalayan Nurses Union File of Doris E. Westmacott, COHSE Nat. Woman Offr., re early yrs. of MNU [f d.1953]. Contents incl. : corres. w. Jn. A. Brazier, Mrs L.H. Harris, Miss Chan Peng Chim, J.T. Waite, COHSE Gen. Sec.; MNU recruiting leaflet, Rules, pprs. for 1953 conf., ann. rpt., 1953-4, mins. procs. of 2nd ann. deleg. conf., 1954. MSS.229/6/C/CO/3/2-11 COHSE files, grouped by Carpenter as relating to "Post-war staffing crisis"Scope and ContentThey relate to the training and recruitment of nurses, incl. district nurses, midwives and part-time nurses. Most derive from the work of Doris E. Westmacott, National Woman Officer of COHSE. They include corres., reports and drafts of same, minutes, pamphlets, single issues of journals, etc. MSS.229/6/C/CO/3/2-9 Files of Doris E. Westmacott MSS.229/6/C/CO/3/2 1939-56 136 items in fileScope and Content"Nursing - Conditions, Training, Status, etc. Comments on published Reports, draft memoranda, Bills, etc." Contents incl. : GoN pr. Statement of case re nursing unemployment, 1939; items re Nurses Bill, 1943; RCN and NHS, 1944, 1945; HWSU statement, 1945, and draft on shortage of hospital staff; TUC statement on VD clinics, Nov 1945; docs. re Wkg. Pty rpt. on training recruitment of nurses, 1948; corres. pprs. re nursing legislation, 1948-9; observations on nurses' registration training, 1949; corres. w. Lord Crook, 1949, 1953; observations on Wkg. Pty. rpt. on midwives, 1949; Queen's Institute of Dist. Nsg. rpt., Feb 1955; material re business of TUC Nat. Advisory Cttee. for Nsg. Profession, 1955-6; incomplete group of mins. agendas of same, 1953-6. MSS.229/6/C/CO/3/3 1946 Dec - 1949 Oct, 1951 Sep - 1952 Mar 103 items in fileScope and Content"Working Party - Training recruitment, midwives. District Nurse Training. Evidence - TUC". Contents incl. : reactions of GoN, NUPE and Women Public Health Officers' Assoc. to proposed enquiry; observations on the Report; reconstruction of Central Midwives Board; rpt. of Brit. Council for Rehabilitation 1-day conf. on speeding recovery [misfile]. MSS.229/6/C/CO/3/4 1954-5 29 items in fileScope and ContentSub-file of above "Working Party District Nurse Training". Principal contents : material issued by Queen's Institute of District Nursing. MSS.229/6/C/CO/3/5 1945; 1947-8 41 items in fileScope and Content"Working Party - Training Recruitment Nurses" : Doris Westmacott's file, as a member of the TUC's Nat. Advisory Council for the Nursing Profession, of pprs. rel. to the Wkg. Party Rpt. on the Training Recruitment of Nurses. Principal contents : Soc. Med. Assoc., Nursing in the post-war world, Dec 1945, 12pp.; DW's comments on paras. of the Rpt.; SMA Nurses' News Letter no.8 on the Rpt.; views of NUPE, Guild of Nurses, COHSE, COHSE No.11 Region on nurses in mental health service, NUGMW, Women Pub. Health Officers' Assoc., Nat. Assoc. of Administrators of Local Govt. Establishments; protests at all-male representation on Nurses Midwives Functional Council; COHSE circs. re student nurses' allowances award, Sep 1948. MSS.229/6/C/CO/3/6 1945 Mar - 1948 Jul 109 items in fileScope and Content"Rushcliffe 1948 - Student Nurses other than Mental. Budgets - Notes of meetings etc." : Doris Westmacott's file as a member of the Nurses Salaries Cttee. Contents incl. : submissions from Soc. of Regd. Male Nurses; Nurses S.C. Notes No.11 re male nurses; remuneration of post-registration students; Mental Nurses Sub-cttee. jt. mtg. mins., 11 Jul 1947; corres. w. COHSE Gen. Sec., Jul 1947; rpt. of Nursing Services Sub-cttee. of Berks, Bucks Oxon Regional Hospitals Council; some NSC and Nurses Panel mins.; student nurses' rates problems, 1948; batch of sample budgets obtained by COHSE in this connection; w. SRMN and NAALGE submissions; also mema. re TB and the Nat. Health Service Bill. MSS.229/6/C/CO/3/7 1947 Feb-Mar 35 items in fileScope and Content"Part-time Nurse R/cliffe - Gloucester Conference 1947" : Doris Westmacott's file re Conf. on Part-time Nursing, Cheltenham, Feb 1947. Contents incl. : MoH circs. re payment and re campaign in Gtr. London Area; Cheltenham conf. programme; press rpt.; Nursing Times arts.; draft by WE; corres. re; charts and booklets re the Gloucestershire C.C. scheme MSS.229/6/C/CO/3/8 1950, 1953, 1955 22 items in fileScope and Content"Civil Defence 1950. Nat. Hosp. Service Reserve": Doris Westmacott's file. Contents incl.: outline of scheme and campaign guide, 1950; notes on Mass Mtg. for Women on CD, 7 Nov 1950; ppr. re NHSR campaign, 1955; info./enrolment leaflets. MSS.229/6/C/CO/3/9 1953-4 40 items in fileScope and ContentD. Westmacott's file re position of the enrolled assistant nurse in the NHS ; responses to Standing Nursing Advisory Cttee. questionnaire; corres. with and re F. W. Lane and J. D. Benton, members of COHSE and officers in the Society of State Enrolled Male Nurses. MSS.229/6/C/CO/3/10 1943, 1947-53 118 items in fileScope and ContentFile of Miss L. Mitchell, sec. of Medical Services Guild of COHSE. Misc. contents rel. principally to London Advisory Cttee. of MSG and to dispensers and dispensing assistants. Incl. mins. of inaugural mtg. of Apothecaries Hall Dispensing Assoc. [later Assoc. of Pharmacy Technicians], aims sheet.; Whitley Council material re dispensing assts.; NUPE statement, 25 Aug 1948; rpt. of MSG mtg. of doctors re NHS, 19 Jan 1947; sub-file: notes of and reports on visit to Czechoslovakia as member of London TC delegation, 1947. MSS.229/6/C/CO/3/11 1943-58 23 items in fileScope and ContentFile of misc. docs. rel. to NHS staffing. Contents include: CPGB Memorandum on a National Medical Service; photocopy of Staffing the hospitals (HMSO, 1945); SMA : dupl. report of Nursing Cttee., 16 Sep 1945; COHSE, The hospital services, repr. Feb 1946; G. B. Carter E. C. Pearce, Reconsideration of nursing (repr. fr. Nursing Mirror, 1946); interim rpt. of COHSE Special Sub-cttee. on staffing, Jun 1946; Nat. Advisory Council on Recruitment of Nurses Midwives: various docs., 1955; COHSE doc. re constitution of Area Nurse-Training Cttees., 1955; COHSE submissions on Midwives Wkg. Pty. rpt., nd. MSS.229/6/C/CO/3/12 No date11 items in fileScope and ContentCOHSE file "Law relating to mental illness, etc" : Acts, etc.; COHSE evidence to R. Commn. on the Law relating to Mental Illness...1955. MSS.229/6/C/CO/3/13 1958-1980Scope and ContentCarpenter's file re "Ambulance Workers" : photocopies and cuttings of Health Services Jnl. arts., 1960s; cuttings re Scottish strike, 1969; HSJ arts., 1970s; Health Social Service Jnl. special issue, 29 Aug 1980; COHSE rpt. on FBU Conf. of fire-ambul. servs. delegates, 1958. MSS.229/6/C/CO/3/14 19697 items in fileScope and ContentSub-file re Federation Ambulance Personnel, incl. Charter, application/memb. card, 1tr. from Scottish rep. MSS.229/6/C/CO/3/15 1947-79Scope and ContentGeorge Gibson, General Secretary of MHIWU: copies of obituaries, 1953; press-cuttings and an extract from Philip M. Williams, Hugh Gaitskell re investigation of Gibson by Lynskey Tribunal into corruption in 1947. MSS.229/6/C/CO/3/16 1968-70Scope and Content"COHSE Historical" file of H. Goldman, editor, Health Services Jnl. : corres.; drafts of articles; copies of parts of publications. MSS.229/6/C/CO/4 COHSE PublicationsMSS.229/6/C/CO/4/1 1985 Scope and ContentThey still go marching on... : a celebration of COHSE's first 75 years, by M. Carpenter (Banstead, COHSE), 64 pp. illus. MSS.229/6/C/CO/4/5 [1946?] Scope and ContentRevised scale of salaries... [recommended by]... Rushcliffe Mental Nurses Sub-Committee. MSS.229/6/C/CO/4/6 1973 Scope and ContentCOHSE Chat, Aberdeen OTS [Operating Theatre Staff] Branch newsltr. MSS.229/6/C/CO/5 Non-COHSE PublicationsMSS.229/6/C/CO/5/1-15 General publications MSS.229/6/C/CO/5/4 [1965?] Scope and ContentCrichton, Anne, Managers for the hospital service, Welsh Hospital Board MSS.229/6/C/CO/5/5 1947 Scope and ContentHolder, Lord (ed.), Health and social welfare, Todd Publishing Co. MSS.229/6/C/CO/5/6 1951 Scope and ContentHoyle, J.S. and Hawkesworth, T.S., Mental health officer's guide, Elsworth Bros. MSS.229/6/C/CO/5/7 1934 Scope and ContentMacDonald, V.M., Mental hygiene and the public health nurse, J.B. Lippincott MSS.229/6/C/CO/5/8 [1921] Scope and ContentMental Hospitals' Assoc., Thirty years administration of public asylums, Hodder Stoughton MSS.229/6/C/CO/5/9 1968 Scope and ContentMinistry of Health, Administrative structure of medical and related services in England and Wales, HMSO MSS.229/6/C/CO/5/10 1965 Scope and ContentNuffield Provincial Hospitals Trust Focus on nurse recruitment, OUP MSS.229/6/C/CO/5/14 1929 Scope and ContentRoyal Medico-Psychological Assoc., State registration of mental nurses. II "Correspondence...", Allard Son MSS.229/6/C/CO/5/15 1942 Scope and ContentTrades Union Congress, Programme of reception...Soviet Trade Union Delegation MSS.229/6/C/CO/7 MiscellaneousMSS.229/6/C/CO/7/1 1923-5 Scope and ContentGuardians of Poor for Salford v J. Dewhurst. Case concerning superannuation heard in House of Lords: statements of case; appendix of related papers. MSS.229/6/C/CO/7/2 1928, 1941 No date Scope and ContentMisc. items found inter-filed in M. Carpenter's research notes and photocopies. Incl. circular re union house purchase scheme, n.d. MSS.229/6/C/CO/7/3 1934-79 Scope and ContentMisc. pprs. received loose and filed by MRC staff. Incl.: pr. ephemera belonging to C. Harris, 1947-58; conf. ephemera, 1958. MSS.229/6/C/CO/7/4 1967 Scope and Content"Aide-memoire" of evidence presented to special mtg. of Winwick Newchurch Hospital Management Cttee. [Cheshire] re complaint by COHSE of improper procedure in filling vacant posts. MSS.229/6/C/CO/7/5 1967-74 Immediate Source of AcquisitionAcquired by M. Carpenter from L. Butler? Scope and ContentMiscellaneous pprs. incl. dupl. memoranda and minutes. MSS.229/6/C/CO/7/6-21 Oral history project Reproduction ConditionsNote there are no restrictions on the use of, or quotations from, the tape-recorded interviews. MSS.229/6/C/CO/7/6 1978-9 Scope and ContentFiles of pprs. re inter-viewing, incl. re recording equipment. Also MS. and TS. notes on interviews with: H. Hough; E. Lawson; G. Sheridan and P. Skikorski; and A. Vanbeck. MSS.229/6/C/CO/7/7-21 Tape-recorded interviews MSS.229/6/C/CO/7/8 [1984] 1 cassetteScope and Content[Lord Crook, interviewed 27 Apr 1984?] Note: lacks beginning of interview and is scarcely audible. MSS.229/6/C/CO/7/18-19 1979 2 cassettesScope and ContentWaites, Bert Mrs Mary, interviewed 4 Jul 1979 11 Jul 1979 MSS.229/6/C/CO/7/20 1979 1 cassetteScope and ContentWestmacott, Miss Doris, later Mrs Reid, interviewed 5 Apr 1979 MSS.229/6/C/CO/7/22/1-5 MC's files re W. Mids. branches Scope and ContentNotes of interviews. visits; ephemera; copies. East Birmingham hospital; Highcroft; Lea Castle; Stallington Hall. MSS.229/6/C/CO/10/1-3 Press-cuttingsMSS.229/6/C/CO/10/1 1965 Scope and ContentAnnual conference of COHSE. Mainly re integration of sexes in mental hospitals. MSS.229/6/C/CO/10/2 1969-70 Scope and ContentVarious matters. Cuttings mainly from Scottish newspapers. MSS.229/6/C/CO/12/1-11 Photographic prints, all black and white.MSS.229/6/C/CO/12/1 No date, mainly late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries Scope and ContentGroup of prints supplied by Beamish Museum. Includes: Royal Victoria Infirm ary wards (2) and nurses with collecting boxes (1); an operating theatre (1); laundry boiler on wheels (1); dispensary in North East England (3); subjects not relating directly to mental hospitals (8). MSS.229/6/C/CO/12/2 1858-1900s Scope and ContentGroup of prints supplied by National Museum of Labour History. Includes: poster re punishment of inmates for destroying property of Mile End Workhouse, 1858 (1); workhouse, refuge and hostel scenes, all in London, 1870-1900s n.d. (4); Herbert Morrison, n.d. (1) MSS.229/6/C/CO/12/3 Undated, possibly 1960s Scope and ContentGroup of 16 prints of unknown provenance all depicting patients in an unidentified mental hospital. MSS.229/6/C/CO/12/4 No date Scope and ContentGroup of 20 prints supplied by Geo. Tokarski, Lincoln, depicting: wards; kitchen; nurses' accommodation and recreations; but not patients. MSS.229/6/C/CO/12/5 1951 No date Scope and Content4 prints depicting confs. of No.3 Region, Participants incl. A. Bevan. MSS.229/6/C/CO/12/7 No date [1960s?] Scope and Content1 Belfast Telegraph copyright print, signing of a document, 3 people present MSS.229/6/C/CO/12/9 No date [1950s] Scope and Content1 print, unidentified group, [possibly National Executive Committee?] MSS.229/6/C/CO/12/10 No date [1910s or 1920s?] Scope and Content1 picture postcard, staff of Radcliffe Asylum, incl. Medical Superintendent Return to the Table of Contents MSS.229/6/C/1994 Additional materialImmediate Source of AcquisitionDeposited by Mr M. Carpenter in 1994. MSS.229/6/C/1994/1 1960Scope and ContentCOHSE, 1910-1960. Fifty years of progress (COHSE, 1960), iv and 24 pp. MSS.229/6/C/1994/2 1993Scope and ContentCOHSE, video: All for one, one for all. The story of COHSE. COHSE 1910-1993 MSS.229/6/C/1994/3 1937Scope and ContentL. T. Feldon and George Gibson, Asylum Officers' Superannuation Act, 1909 and associated acts, with notes and comments MSS.229/6/C/1994/4 1903Scope and ContentEast Sussex County Asylum, Hellingly. Regulations Holograph transcript of a printed version. Return to the Table of Contents Return to the Table of Contents |