Confederation of Health Service Employees

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; Health Services Journal, 1946-63 (incomplete); historian's papers; delegate conference papers, 1992-93.

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 is available to researchers by appointment at the Modern Records Centre, University of Warwick. See http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/services/library/mrc/using/

IThe initial deposit was made by COHSE in October 1981. Subsequent deposits were made in 1985, 1987, 1988 and 1993.

Link to full catalogue: http://mrc-catalogue.warwick.ac.uk/records/COH

There are no restrictions on the use of this archive, apart from the requirements of copyright law.

This collection has been weeded for duplicates.

Further deposits are expected.

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