| Description Of Item | Originally in a ring binder with the title as given. Folders 1-2 were loose papers at the front of the folder.
Folder 1 - Strong's handwritten index cards with references to articles on cervical cytology (originally attached to the cover of the binder); bundle of papers sent by the Scottish Home and Health Department including the British Medical Association General Medical Services Committee guidance on cervical cytology screening and fail safe mechanisms for the follow-up of abnormal smears, 1986; paper on computerisation of the cervical cytology service; table of deaths due to cancer of cervix 1970-1984; costing of recommendations; paper on staffing of a cytology laboratory; letter from Strong to Dr A D MacIntyre, Scottish Home and Health Department returning the draft report; article 'What is the monetary value of a human life?' by W I Card and G H Mooney; and letter to Dr McIntyre from A Munro of the Planning Unit on costings, June 1986.
Folder 2 - minutes of meeting 12th May 1986 with another draft copy of the report; Strong's notes on Appendix IV of the report with a paper on projected workload and staff requirements; letter concerning the supply of cervical spatulae, August 1986; drafts of the report, August 1986; and minutes of meeting 30th June 1986.
Folder 3 - report on cytopathology services from Grampian Regional Health Board; document CCWG 85/1 - estimated female population, CCWG 85/2 - cervical cancer in Scotland in under 35 year olds 1969-1983; CCWG 85/3 registrations of cancer of cervix 1974-82, CCWG 85/5 - cervical cytology screening, CCWG 85/6 - cervical smears examined, CCWG 85/7 - what groups are screened and at what frequency?; note for chairman of the working group; agenda and minutes for meetings 27th June, 6th August, 7th October and 4th December 1985; cervical cytology and computing paper by Information Services Division, July 1985; Tayside cytology computer system; tables of cancer statistics; letter from Helen Duguid with amendments to the report, March 1986; and letter from F D Lee, consultant pathologist on amendments to the report. |