Meetings were held once a month. They are arranged in the following order: minutes of the previous meeting, minutes of current meeting, agenda of current meeting, papers of current meeting.
Items addressed at every meeting are: the location of the meeting, attendees and apologies, matters arising, correspondence, Congress, membership matters, reports from committees, reports from national boards, use of the seal, membership numbers.
During 1954 the topics discussed by Council include:
RCN comment on the Nuffield Report
Death of Helen Bird, founder member
World Health Day 'The Nurse - Pioneer of Health'
Nurses and midwives Whitley council
Cowdray Club
Death of Lady Denman, Vice-President of the RCN
The training of district nurses
Nurses trained abroad
Proposed department of nursing at the University of Edinburgh
Death of Annie Burgess, matron of Seaside Cottage, Bonchurch
Indexed.
This record relates to two separate sets of minutes: the original set is signed. This volume is kept in Store B.
The other set is a copy of the original, split into two volumes. One volume runs from 21 Jan to 20 May 1954, and the other from 22 Jul to 16 Dec 1954. These volumes are kept in Store A.