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Index of pending medical appeal tribunal (MAT) appeals, in alphabetical order.

Further includes list of consultants on the medical appeal tribunal panel from which tribunals were selected, dated 5 July 1995.

Copies of five appeal decisions 2003, won by Nancy Tait "by arguing that cases should be decided on the 'Balance of Probabilities'", with a covering letter to Rodney Nelson-Jones, solicitor.

Also copy of another appeal won in 1994 and copy of an appeal lost, May 2003, and some then current scientific literature on the problematic of fibre counts.

Correspondence (including telephone memoranda) and papers re active medical appeal cases and re appeal procedures.

Correspondents include appellants and administrators, among them Mr Edward Smith of North London Regional Medical Appeal Tribunal, and Mr Richard Thomas, assistant administrator at the Independent Tribunal Service (ITS), London. Further,

• correspondence with Prof. Brian Heard (Royal College of Pathologists) re reliance of London Social Medical Boards on Brompton Hospital and the judgement of Prof. Brian Corrin, and re advice on staining techniques to establish histology of a cancer and on the diagnosis of asbestosis and cryptogenic fibrosing alveolitis (CFA)
• correspondence and papers re reforms of the appeals procedures, 1999, in whose course the ITS came to be replaced by The Appeals Service
• list of appeals represented by SPAID, "outstanding as at 16 March 1989"
• list of active cases June-July 1986
• correspondence re MAT cases 1983-1985

The London North and London South Regions SSAT & MAT was formed in 1991, a merger of the old London North and London South Regions.

'SSAT' stands for Social Security Appeals Tribunal.

Correspondence (including telephone memoranda), notes and papers. In alphabetical order by name of individual or organisation; this could be a victim of industrial disease or family member, or a social worker, nurse, case worker in a charity, asbestos activist (etc.). Normally filed by enquirer / occasionally by name mentioned in press coverage.

Papers include victim's work history, inquest reports and death certificates, clinician's notes. There is some overlap with solicitor's correspondence.

Notes suggest that some queries were 'diaried', i.e. they received a review date. Other notes suggest that occasionally content from 'Q'-files was removed to a case file. Notes also suggest that while in Q-state, the information stayed with SPAID / OEDA staff, rather than with Nancy Tait.

Mainly correspondence (including telephone memoranda) re asbestos-related queries. Very occasionally the information flows in the opposite direction i.e. SPAID / OEDA asks questions.

Front matter includes material on access to medical records and how long hospitals keep records.

Correspondence re enquiries resulting from a Meridian Television ‘Serve you right’ programme on asbestos.

Correspondence and papers re BBC 'Watchdog' programme on asbestos, broadcast 8 March 1999. The bulk of the file is audience response.

Includes

• a little correspondence with the BBC, copies of programme information from Radio Times, print-out of BBC webpage
• overviews of number of enquiries, new OEDA cases resulting from the programme, address lists etc.
• response report indicating that at least 342 information packs had been sent out at request
• register of telephone inquiries
• register of inquiries by letter

Later Nancy Tait observed that 'Not many of the calls following the Watchdog programme were from people who needed OEDA', concluding that she recently found 'that if OEDA is mentioned at all, especially by the media, we are overwhelmed' (letter to Colin Ettinger, 25 August 1999).

OEDA correspondence in response to enquiries resulting from BBC 'Southern Eye' programme transmitted on 24 February 2000.

Typescript and offprint of Nancy Tait, Jean Robinson and John Heath (1979) ‘National priorities in occupational disease: the family and the community’, in ‘Arh hig rada toksikol ['Archives of Industrial Hygiene and Toxicology']’ 30 (supplement), 1515-1521.

This was based on a presentation at the xix International Congress on Occupational Health ‘Organisational and Social Aspects of Occupational Health’, Dubrovnik, Yugoslavia, 25-30 September 1978.

Jean Robinson (b. 1930, née Lynch) was one of the original SPAID trustees. She was a patient activist and had been a member of several patient groups when she became the chair of the Patients Association in 1973. In 1979 she became a lay member of the General Medical Council (GMC).

Copy of offprint Nancy Tait (1980) 'The effect of differing concepts of the criteria that should be used for the diagnosis of asbestos disease', in 'Biological effects of mineral fibres' vol. 2, ed. J C Wagner (Lyon: IARC Publications No 30).

The article argued that the work of SPAID "suggests that arbitrary rules, operated for the purpose of deciding which cases may benefit from employment insurance schemes, are adding to the recognized problems connected with the diagnosis of asbestos disease. As a result, statistics are unrealistic and do not include cases which show not only that workers in the asbestos manufacturing industry are at risk, but that asbestos, including chrysotile, affects the health of the community."

Materials relating to the production of Nancy Tait's ‘The role of SPAID (the Society for the Prevention of Asbestosis and Industrial Diseases) in the prevention of disease and the welfare of sufferers’, chapter 2 in ‘Asbestos: properties, applications and hazards’ vol. 2 ed. Seymour S Chissick and Robert Derricott (Wiley: 1983, 9-62). In reverse chronological order.

Includes

• correspondence including invitation to the book launch
• offprint of the chapter and various draft versions
• appended documents used by Tait to substantiate her claims
• John Wiley & Sons Ltd leaflets

Correspondence with George A Peters, Santa Monica (USA), re a chapter on SPAID for vol. 10 or 11 of the 'Sourcebook on asbestos diseases’, ed. George A Peters and Barbara J Peters.

Includes

• invitation to contribute to the 'Sourcebook'
• Peters' editors' postscript to vol. 10, focusing on compensation practices
• information on earlier volumes of the series

It remains unclear whether the chapter was ever written.

Correspondence and papers re the production of Nancy Tait (2000) 'Asbestos facts'. Includes

• correspondence with compensation lawyers re the content of relevant sections in the publication
• drafts in various stages
• copy of finished product
• notes relating to updates of the 2000 edition
• flyer for 'Asbestos facts'
• circular letter from Nancy Tait, announcing that the Industrial Injuries Advisory Council (IIAC) report reviewing the prescription of diseases attributable to asbestos, Cm 6553, will be laid before Parliament on 14 July 2005

Responses to requests for copies of 'Asbestos facts' and unsolicited mailings of the booklet. In alphabetical order by surname of individual or name of organisation. Recipients included concerned members of the public, health professionals, solicitors, union contacts, potential funders of OEDA, asbestos victim support groups, cancer charities and similar, journalists, and students interested in making asbestos a topic of their master's thesis.