Collection

┆National 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; property records, 1895-1951;  Health Services Journal, 1946-63 (incomplete); historian's papers; delegate conference papers, 1992-93.

129 boxes

The 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 (NUPE) to form UNISON. Reference: Mick Carpenter, All for One ( COHSE: Banstead, 1980).

This collection has been weeded for duplicates.

Open

National Union of Public Employees (NUPE); The Hospital and Welfare Services Union; National Asylum Workers' Union / Mental Hospital and Institutional Workers' Union; Medical Practitioners' Union; Association of Tuberculosis Care Workers

Poor Law Workers' Trade Union

National and Local Government Officers' Association

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