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PREM19/847
National health (Pay in the National Health Service (NHS); possibility of industrial action; strike by ambulance men) (Part 1)

Document type: File list item
Source: TNA, PREM19 series
Release date: 2012 Dec 28
Classification: Secret
Page count: 109
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79 Jul 19 Thu Health: Joseph minute to MT (“Pay of Professional and Technical Staff in the National Health Service, and cash limits”) [MT precludes reversing Cabinet decisions] [declassified 2012]
79 Nov 26 Mon Health: DHSS minute to MT (Patrick Jenkin speech to TUC conference) [illegal NHS strikes; MT: “callous disregard of common humanity”] [declassified 2012]
81 Jun 21 Sun Strikes: Whitelaw minute to MT (“Industrial action by the Ambulance Service”) [declassified 2012]
82 Jun 3 Thu Health: Fowler letter to Howe (NHS pay dispute) [“about to enter a critical period”] [declassified 2012]
82 Jul 12 Mon Health: Fowler minute to MT (NHS pay dispute) [“increasingly politicised”] [declassified 2012]
82 Jul 14 Wed Health: Cabinet Office briefing for MT (“Industrial Affairs”) [British Rail and NHS] [declassified 2012]
82 Jul 15 Thu Health: Younger letter to Fowler (NHS pay dispute) [“markedly more serious than in England”] [declassified 2012]
82 Jul 16 Fri Health: No.10 minute to MT (“Mr Fowler’s statement on NHS pay”) [Unions’ call for three-day national strike] [declassified 2012]
82 Jul 26 Mon Health: Fowler minute to MT (“National Health Service Pay”) [“no more money”; “media… do not support the unions’ claims”] [declassified 2012]
82 Aug 27 Fri Health: Fowler minute to MT (“NHS pay dispute”) [MT: “enormous increase in [staff] nos since 1961”] [declassified 2012]
82 Aug 27 Fri Health: Fowler letter to Howe (NHS pay arrangements) [“possible key to settlement of the current dispute”] [declassified 2012]