Save a Life Campaign

  • Save a Life Campaign
Date:
1980s
Reference:
GC/164
  • Archives and manuscripts

About this work

Description

Correspondence, press cuttings and records of establishment and administration of first aid courses in this campaign sponsored by the Royal Society of Medicine, 1985-1988.

Publication/Creation

1980s

Physical description

11 boxes

Arrangement

Very little re-arrangement of the papers has taken place, other than putting them into a usable order, either alphabetical or chronological. There seemed to be no system to the correspondence files (see D), as some were given an alphabetical sequence but most were not. The files have all been weeded of ephemeral and other material not worthy of historical preservation.

Acquisition note

The Archivist at the Royal Society of Medicine gave these papers to the Contemporary Medical Archives Centre in July 1994. They chart the development and progress of the Save-a-Life Campaign, a scheme sponsored by the Royal Society of Medicine, and other bodies including the government. The aim was to train members of the public in the techniques of first-aid in an emergency situation.

Biographical note

The campaign was launched in Sep 1986. It was co-ordinated centrally from the Royal Society of Medicine, with each county in England having at least one area co-ordinator. Scotland, Wales and Ireland also had co-ordinators. In conjunction with countrywide classes the BBC ran a series of 10 minute programmes, with sequences using the life-saving techniques. The programmes were repeated a further four times. The campaign closed end of Mar 1988 due to lack of finance, although some areas continued training people who were interested, and the Royal Society of Medicine continued to produce booklets for sale. For a more detailed history of the campaign see H.1.

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Accession number

  • 528