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Registers relating to the 2 + 1 course for student nurses. The 2 + 1 course was an extension of the 'experimental course' trialled in the mid-1960s (see NU/1/1/20): it involved a condensed two years of training followed by an intern year leading to registration. According to the oral history interview with Joan Clague (Chief Nursing Officer at the time: see NU/7/2/1), 'from the Autumn of ’69… the whole intake for registration went over to the 2 + 1', including graduate entrants. As it became the default pathway for students, the term '2 + 1' is not used consistently in the registers, and seems to have been gradually phased out by the 1980s (as course lengths continued to be experimented with for different student streams, e.g. '118 week course' and '166 week course').

The registers contain records of student attendance and assessment for different sections of the course (paediatrics, medicine, surgery, obstetrics, psychiatry, neurosurgery, etc), including placements at other hospitals (see name access points for list); they generally have additional typed documents (timetables, lecture lists, exam questions, allocation lists, etc) taped in. A majority also contain class photographs; Some also contain photographs and lists of student details/qualifications. The date ranges are as follows:

Sep 1969 – Oct 1971 [bulging with taped-in notes/documents – spine has cracked]
Mar 1970 – Feb 1972 [oversize; includes photograph]
Sep 1970 – Apr 1971 ['2 + 1 students: Sept 1970 set, Stage I']
Mar 1971 – Aug 1972 ['Mar 1971 Entry + Revision'; oversize; includes photograph]
Apr 1971 – Oct 1972 ['2 + 1 students: Sept 1970 set, Stage II']
Sep 1971 – Oct 1973
Sep 1974 – Aug 1982 [register of completion dates for candidates, but reverse of book also contains lists of applications relating to student residence (?), 1967-1972; cover is detached]
Mar 1977 – Oct 1979
Sep 1979 – Jul 1982
Nov 1979 – Jan 1981
Jul 1980 – Jul 1983
Apr 1981 – Sep 1984
Jul 1982 – May 1985
Oct 1984 – Oct 1987
Sep 1985 – Sep 1988

• ‘London Teachers of Anatomy: A Retrospect’ by Charles Hawkins (reprint from The Lancet, 27 Sep 1884)

Papers relating to various anniversary celebrations, including

• 250th anniversary of St George's Hospital, including exhibition catalogue; tickets and invitations; programmes and schedules; correspondence; notes on finances; notes on exhibitions by various departments, 1982-1983
• Minutes of meetings of the 250th Anniversary Exhibition Sub-Committee and related correspondence
• Silver Jubilee printed programme, 1935
• Order of service for St George’s Hospital bi-centenary commemoration, 1933
• Invitation to the opening of St George’s Hospital and Medical School by Her Majesty The Queen, 1980
• 'London Calling' magazine, including article ‘St George’s Hospital’ by Ruth Randall, 1979
• Photographs of Christmas pantomime by St George’s Hospital Dramatic Society, rowing events and St George’s Hospital at the time of Queen Elizabeth’s coronation and related correspondence, 1953-2002

Full title: Annual report of St George's Hospital, and of Atkinson Morley's Convalescent Hospital, For the Benefit of Poor Patients from St George's Hospital, For the year 1894, with A List of the Governors & Subscribers and Statement of Receipts and Expenditure'. Printed by McCorquodale & Co., Limited, Cardington Street, NW London, 1895.

Includes a list of governors and subscribers, legacies left to the hospital and trust funds since 1733.

Three folded architectural plans produced by the firm of W. H. Watkins, Gray & Partners (aka Watkins Gray), depicting the following:

i) Tooting Grove Experimental Ward: 30 Bed Ward Unit, 5 Nov 1963
ii) Tooting Grove 30 Bed Experimental Ward Unit: Joinery Details - Cleaner's room, hinged shelves & seats, 9 Jul 1964
iii) Atkinson Morley's Hospital, Wimbledon: Rehabilitation Centre – Floor plan at level 91.00, Jul 1964

Documents relating to the history of Atkinson Morley’s

• Notes on the history of Atkinson Morley’s and its ward names, c.1980
• Notes and copies of ‘A History of The Atkinson Morley’s Hospital 1869-1995’ by Terry Gould and David Uttley, 1997
• Photocopy of Atkinson Morley’s will and transcript, 1858)
• Certified copy of death of Atkinson Morley 1858 (1981)
• Letter from Terry Gould to the dean of the medical school, Prof Asscher, regarding Atkinson Morley’s bequathment, 1988
• Printed articles and photocopies relating to CT scanning and Godfrey Hounsfield
• Schedule for thanksgiving service in honour of Wylie McKissock, 1994

Reports and publications

• Annual report of St George’s Hospital, and of Atkinson Morley’s Convalescent Hospital’, 1894
• Copy of rules for nurses and probationers, 1940
• Typescript list of ‘Selected publications from the neurosurgical department of St George’s Hospital at the Atkinson Morley Hospital, since 1948’, c.1950s
• Nursing prospectus with blank application form, c.1980

Photographs

• Photograph of the sports pavillion and photocopied photographs of the nursing home at Possil House, nd, c. 1970s-1980s

Building plans

• Building plans for Atkinson Morley Wing, 1998
• Building plans for Atkinson Morley’s Convalescent Hospital, nd, ?c.1960s

Records relating to nursing training at Atkinson Morley's Hospital. Note that AMH was always affiliated to St George's (beginning as a convalescent home for St George's patients), and that in the post-war period trainee nurses from St George's routinely undertook placements there to gain experience in neurosurgical nursing. Researchers interested in AMH should therefore also consult the general St George's registers sub-series (NU/1/1).

Black and white and colour photographs of Atkinson Morley's (Convalescent) Hospital buildings and nurses, including the entrance, Possil House (the nurses' residence), hospital wards (including Brodie ward), a bar, and scenes from a concert/theatrical performance in 1935 (annotated and signed E. P. Good on the reverse).

Includes two versions of a prospectus booklet (one for state registered and one for state enrolled nurses) for the course in neurosurgical and neurological nursing at Atkinson Morley's Hospital and a brochure about the Wolfson Medical Rehabilitation Centre (part of the Atkinson Morley site); the latter has a reprinted 1967 article from the British Hospital Journal & Social Service Review inserted.

46 audio cassettes of recordings of Nurses' League conferences, debates, and related events/interviews. Topics include Atkinson Morley's Hospital, Agenda for Change, the development of nursing in Gaza (Palestine), ICP stroke, Muriel Powell, etc.

Registers relating to the 'New Experiment in Nursing Education', aka the 'experimental course', which ran for a few years in the mid-1960s, and attempted to give the nursing curriculum a more systematic theoretical foundation based on the human life course (paediatrics, obstetrics, geriatrics, etc). It subsequently evolved into the '2+1' course (see NU/1/1/21).

The registers record student attendance at lectures, tutorials, visits, clinical conferences, study days, etc (including psychiatric nursing training at Atkinson Morley and West Park hospitals), as well as examination results. The date ranges and titles of the registers are as follows:

Nov 1965 – Sep 1967 ['New Experiment in Nursing Education']
Sep 1966 – Apr 1968 ['Record of Nursing Tutorials – Experimental Course']
Nov 1966 – Jul 1968 ['New Experiment in Nursing Education: Group II']
Nov 1967 – Oct 1969 ['Experimental Course']

Contains post-it note stating 'From the papers of Mary Lee Abbott, 1999'