Key Information
Reference code
Title
Date(s)
- 1967 - 1984 (Creation)
Level of description
Item
Extent
2 files
Scope and content
Meeting minutes, reports, correspondence, draft manuscripts and articles relating to St Christopher's Research Committee, chiefly to the work of the drug trials sub-committee, 1967-1980. File includes: initial correspondence with the Ministry of Health, 1967, concerning the establishment of the Research Committee; correspondence between Cicely Saunders and Dr Colin Murray Parkes, 1967-1968, about the new committee and its members, with a draft social history questionnaire to be used in the hospice; interim and draft reports on diamorphine (heroin) trials conducted at the hospice by Dr Robert Twycross, including Twycross' articles, 'Choice of strong analgesic in terminal cancer: diamorphine or morphine?', published in Pain, 1977, and 'The effect of cocaine in the Brompton Cocktail', August 1978; CVs of candidates for the position of Research Fellow, 1978; minutes of a meeting of the Medical Research Council pain research co-ordination group, September 1980. Personal data in the second file is CLOSED for review in 2058.