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1982 Sep 7 - 1983 Aug 18
Prime Ministerial Private Office files

PREM19/1090
National health (National Health Service (NHS) pay dispute; pay determination process in NHS) (Part 2)

Source: TNA, PREM19 series
Release date: 2013 Aug 1
Classification: Secret
Page count: 193
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82 Sep 8 We Major National health: No.10 Policy Unit briefing for MT ("The NHS Dispute") ["none of the options for attempting a settlement are sufficiently attractive [to trade unions]... The Government should continue to ride out the dispute"] [declassified Aug 2013]
82 Sep 8 We Major National health: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Fowler, Kenneth Stowe) ["Health Service Pay Dispute"] [declassified Aug 2013]
82 Sep 9 Th Major National health: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Howe, Fowler, Tebbit, Kenneth Stowe, Robert Armstrong) ["National Health Service Pay"] [declassified Aug 2013]
82 Sep 10 Fr Major National health: MT letter to Foot (NHS Dispute) ["The situation is not such as to require or justify the recall of Parliament... nor do I accept your contention that the pay offers are "inadequate"... there is also another interest to be considered - that of the taxpayer"] [declassified Aug 2013]
82 Sep 10 Fr Major National health: No.10 letter to Home Office ("National Health Service Pay") [Ministerial briefing note] [declassified Aug 2013]
82 Sep 15 We Major National health: Fowler PS letter to No.10 ("Health Service Dispute") [recent developments] [declassified Aug 2013]
82 Sep 23 Th Major National health: No.10 Policy Unit minute to Scholar (NHS pay dispute 'day of action': statistics on civil service supportive industrial action) [declassified Aug 2013]
82 Sep 23 Th Major National health: Fowler PS letter to No.10 ("NHS - staff and beds") ["possible that the journalist [who approached MT] was looking for figures which supported... a simple correlation between NHS manpower and NHS beds... the NHS does not treat beds, but treats patients"; however MT unconvinced by statistics on patients] [declassified Aug 2013]
82 Sep 29 We Major National health: No.10 Policy Unit briefing to MT ("Cabinet: NHS pay dispute") [key points] [declassified Aug 2013]
82 Oct 4 Mo Major National health: Baroness Young letter to Chancellor of the Exchequer ("Sympathetic industrial action") [NHS pay dispute; "I believe that the time has now come to tell all civil servants, formally, of the Government's policy towards sympathetic action"] [declassified Aug 2013]
82 Oct 18 Mo Major National health: No.10 minute to MT ("Statement on the NHS") [summary of reactions in House to Fowler statement on pay dispute/industrial action] [declassified Aug 2013]
82 Oct 25 Mo Major National health: Fowler minute to MT (public sector pay) ["concerned at the possible impact on the present NHS pay dispute of decisions which will shortly have to be taken about the pay of some other groups"] [declassified Aug 2013]
82 Nov 3 We Major National health: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Industrial Affairs: National Health Service Dispute") [[Fowler] will be seeking the Cabinet's agreement to a package of proposals, covering both a two-year pay offer up to 31 March 1984 and permanent pay arrangements thereafter, in respect of the nurses and certain other NHS groups"; proposals/main issues] [declassified Aug 2013]
82 Nov 8 Mo Major National health: No.10 Policy Unit briefing for MT ("NHS Pay") ["Mr Fowler has asked to consult the Prime Minister this evening about the handling of the current negotiations with the NHS unions"] [declassified Aug 2013]
82 Nov 8 Mo Major National health: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Howe, Fowler) ["NHS Ancillaries Pay"] [declassified Aug 2013]
82 Nov 8 Mo Major National health: Fowler PS letter to Chancellor of the Exchequer PS ("Statement on NHS pay") [text of Fowler statement to House] [declassified Aug 2013]
82 Nov 30 Tu Major National health: No.10 Policy Unit minute to Scholar ("Long Term Pay Arrangements in the National Health Service") [MT "most concerned that Ministers should have considered... [Fowler's] proposals carefully before they are put to the professional groups and the trades unions"] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 Mar 24 Th Major National health: No.10 Policy Unit minute to Scholar ("Pay Determination Arrangements in the National Health Service") [negotiations with trade unions: "suggest that... you might write to Mr Fowler's Private Office, registering the Prime Minister's surprise that Mr Fowler has got himself into this position, that... [and] we should not be as forthcoming with proposals"] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 Apr 13 We Major National health: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT ("Pay Determination Arrangements in the National Health Service") [report on latest meeting of Ministerial sub-committee] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 Jun 29 We Major National health: Fowler letter to Chancellor of the Exchequer (National Health Service pay determination) ["You may find it useful to have some background... on the paper which I have just circulated... if we are to avert a public row... we must... make a start on discussions [with the trade unions]"; MT "remains unconvinced that this is either necessary or desirable"] [declassified Aug 2013]