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Correspondence 4. Carole Hoover Sung: Archives and Manuscripts: Reprography cal record officers to devote time and resources to look­ Society of American Archivists Basic Manual Series, Society of ing after these records ... when such work does not American Archivists, 1982. contribute to the primary function of their department. 16 5. T. Hendley, The Archival Storage Potential of Microfilm, Magnetic Media and Optical Discs NRCd Publication No. 19, January The future This problem of retention policies for medical records 6. Timothy Walsh: "The Processing and Storage of Microfilm" will not go away. The matter had been raised at Sydney Archives and Manuscripts Volume 8 No.2, December 1980. 7. Dr. Ann M. Mitchell: "Report on a visit to the New York Hospital" Hospital for 50 years before final agreement on action 26.2.1986 p.2. was reached. Many other teaching hospitals are in a 8. Margaret L. Hedstrom Archives and Manuscripts: Machine­ similar situation. In the UK nearly 500 hospitals have Readable Records Society of American Archivists Basic Manual been closed in the last 10 years." In NSW the trend Series, Society of American Archivists, 1984. 9. Dr. Ann M. Mitchell: op. cit. p.l. seems to be heading ominously that way. To quote the 10. J.A. Mitchell et al: "Summaries and Selective Destruction as a "Health 2000" document: the legislation "will provide solution to the Hospital Record Storage Problem" The Lancet 28 the Minister with powers to close an area health service, October 1967. amalgamate area health services or public hospitals."18 11. Section 6 "Appraisal and Disposal" Modern Archives Administra­ The extent to which public hospitals' record policies tion and Records Management. A R.A.M.P. Reader. UNESCO December 1985. are dependent upon the State archival authority differs 12. Carvalho, J: "Archival Application of Mathematical Sampling from State to State. However the issues remain the Techniques". same. This area has been one which has been largely 13. The Use of Sampling Techniques in the Retention of Records, A ignored and if the trends from the United Kingdom and R.A.M.P. Study. UNESCO, Paris 1981. 14. ibid. p.13. the United States of America are indicative, it is an area 15. Annual Report, Sydney Hospital, 1974, p.lO. which will be of increasing importance in Australia. 16. J. Pepler: "An Explanation of the Problem - Tower Hamlet Health Authority" in Hospital Clinical Records op. cit. p.44. References 17. A. Nichol and J. Sheppard op. cit. p.~o. 1. A. Nichol and J. Sheppard: "What records are kept now? The pre­ 18. NSW Government: Health 2000. The BestofHealth for NSW, 1986 sent scene" in Hospital Clinical Records. Proceedings of a sym­ p.18. posium held at the Kings Fund Centre 8th May 1986 in collaboration with Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, Contemporary Medical Archives Centre. pp.25-33, 64. Acknowledgement 2. Dr. B.A. Herriot to the Regional Administrative Officer Health Commission ofNSW, 25.10.1973, file 3.53.05/1 "Medical Records­ The author wishes to acknowledge the great contributions by Dr. Ann General and Administration" in SHS 5, Correspondence files, mul­ M. Mitchell in the development of archives and archival policies at tiple number series, 1963-. Sydney Hospital. _r»: 3. D. Roberts: "Using Computers and Micrographics" in A. Pederson MRK6--J (ed) Keeping Archives Australian Society of Archivists, 1987. v Dear Editor, Dear Editor, I meant to write earlier to congratulate you on the first The Quality Assurance Task Force (Victoria) has pre­ ofthe new look 'Australian Medical Record Journal' but sented its final Report to the Minister for Health, Hon. D.R. White. The Report was launched at the Dandenong didn't make it. I think that it's an excellent publication. I only had one and District Hospital on 27th August 1987.The Minister grizzle: your cover. All the women were in 'handmaiden' found the recommendations in accord with the prin­ positions and it was only men who were obviously doc­ ciples he proposed as Government policy when tors! So you can imagine how glad I was to see a different establishing the Task Force. The Government is now - very good -cover for the September issue. considering the various methods for implementation of the recommendations. Mary Ell, Gerald Wakely, Member, Box 7151, Auckland, New Zealand Quality Assurance Task Force (Victoria) 10. AMR JOURNAL, DECEMBER, 1987 http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Australian Medical Record Journal SAGE

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© 1987 Health Information Management Association of Australia Limited
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0817-3907
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1833-3575
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10.1177/183335838701700405
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4. Carole Hoover Sung: Archives and Manuscripts: Reprography cal record officers to devote time and resources to look­ Society of American Archivists Basic Manual Series, Society of ing after these records ... when such work does not American Archivists, 1982. contribute to the primary function of their department. 16 5. T. Hendley, The Archival Storage Potential of Microfilm, Magnetic Media and Optical Discs NRCd Publication No. 19, January The future This problem of retention policies for medical records 6. Timothy Walsh: "The Processing and Storage of Microfilm" will not go away. The matter had been raised at Sydney Archives and Manuscripts Volume 8 No.2, December 1980. 7. Dr. Ann M. Mitchell: "Report on a visit to the New York Hospital" Hospital for 50 years before final agreement on action 26.2.1986 p.2. was reached. Many other teaching hospitals are in a 8. Margaret L. Hedstrom Archives and Manuscripts: Machine­ similar situation. In the UK nearly 500 hospitals have Readable Records Society of American Archivists Basic Manual been closed in the last 10 years." In NSW the trend Series, Society of American Archivists, 1984. 9. Dr. Ann M. Mitchell: op. cit. p.l. seems to be heading ominously that way. To quote the 10. J.A. Mitchell et al: "Summaries and Selective Destruction as a "Health 2000" document: the legislation "will provide solution to the Hospital Record Storage Problem" The Lancet 28 the Minister with powers to close an area health service, October 1967. amalgamate area health services or public hospitals."18 11. Section 6 "Appraisal and Disposal" Modern Archives Administra­ The extent to which public hospitals' record policies tion and Records Management. A R.A.M.P. Reader. UNESCO December 1985. are dependent upon the State archival authority differs 12. Carvalho, J: "Archival Application of Mathematical Sampling from State to State. However the issues remain the Techniques". same. This area has been one which has been largely 13. The Use of Sampling Techniques in the Retention of Records, A ignored and if the trends from the United Kingdom and R.A.M.P. Study. UNESCO, Paris 1981. 14. ibid. p.13. the United States of America are indicative, it is an area 15. Annual Report, Sydney Hospital, 1974, p.lO. which will be of increasing importance in Australia. 16. J. Pepler: "An Explanation of the Problem - Tower Hamlet Health Authority" in Hospital Clinical Records op. cit. p.44. References 17. A. Nichol and J. Sheppard op. cit. p.~o. 1. A. Nichol and J. Sheppard: "What records are kept now? The pre­ 18. NSW Government: Health 2000. The BestofHealth for NSW, 1986 sent scene" in Hospital Clinical Records. Proceedings of a sym­ p.18. posium held at the Kings Fund Centre 8th May 1986 in collaboration with Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, Contemporary Medical Archives Centre. pp.25-33, 64. Acknowledgement 2. Dr. B.A. Herriot to the Regional Administrative Officer Health Commission ofNSW, 25.10.1973, file 3.53.05/1 "Medical Records­ The author wishes to acknowledge the great contributions by Dr. Ann General and Administration" in SHS 5, Correspondence files, mul­ M. Mitchell in the development of archives and archival policies at tiple number series, 1963-. Sydney Hospital. _r»: 3. D. Roberts: "Using Computers and Micrographics" in A. Pederson MRK6--J (ed) Keeping Archives Australian Society of Archivists, 1987. v Dear Editor, Dear Editor, I meant to write earlier to congratulate you on the first The Quality Assurance Task Force (Victoria) has pre­ ofthe new look 'Australian Medical Record Journal' but sented its final Report to the Minister for Health, Hon. D.R. White. The Report was launched at the Dandenong didn't make it. I think that it's an excellent publication. I only had one and District Hospital on 27th August 1987.The Minister grizzle: your cover. All the women were in 'handmaiden' found the recommendations in accord with the prin­ positions and it was only men who were obviously doc­ ciples he proposed as Government policy when tors! So you can imagine how glad I was to see a different establishing the Task Force. The Government is now - very good -cover for the September issue. considering the various methods for implementation of the recommendations. Mary Ell, Gerald Wakely, Member, Box 7151, Auckland, New Zealand Quality Assurance Task Force (Victoria) 10. AMR JOURNAL, DECEMBER, 1987

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