Archive

1984 Sep 4 - 1985 Mar 29
Prime Ministerial Private Office files

PREM19/1573
National Health (Expenditure and efficiency in the National Health Service (NHS): annual report; restrictions on NHS prescribing; limited list of drugs; health charges) (Part 4)

Source: TNA, PREM19 series
Release date: 2014 Dec 30
Classification: Secret
Page count: 319
Any docs withheld?

PREM19/1573 - download whole file (PDF, 55.55 MB)

Selections from this file

Showing items 1 - 18 of 18

Date Value Title
84 Sep 4 Tu Minor NHS: DHSS letter to No.10 (Annual Report on the NHS) [request to use MT's photograph on cover] [declassified Dec 2014]
84 Sep 14 Fr Major NHS: Fowler minute to MT ("NHS Annual Report") [declassified Dec 2014]
84 Sep 14 Fr Major NHS: Willetts minute to MT ("The National Health Service: Annual Report") [comment on Fowler's report] [declassified Dec 2014]
84 Sep 17 Mo Major NHS: No.10 letter to DHSS ("The National Health Service: Annual Report") [MT comment on report: 'The department really has made a superb effort'] [declassified Dec 2014]
84 Oct 8 Mo Major NHS: Redwood minute to MT ("The Health Service") [proposed strategy for health policy: 'The more we spend the less popular we become'] [declassified Dec 2014]
84 Oct 30 Tu Major NHS: DHSS letter to No.10 ("The Health Service in England: Annual Report 1984") [press notice on publication of report] [declassified Dec 2014]
84 Nov 8 Th Major NHS: DHSS letter to No.10 ("Restrictions on NHS Prescribing") [law change to require prescription of generic drugs] [declassified Dec 2014]
85 Jan 15 Tu Major NHS: Ronald Halstead, Chairman of Beecham Group, letter to MT (concern about proposals to reduce pharmaceutical industry profitability and restrictions on prescriptions) [declassified Dec 2014]
85 Jan 25 Fr Major NHS: Younger letter to Fowler ("NHS Supervisory Board") [NHS management in Scotland] [declassified Dec 2014]
85 Feb 11 Mo Major NHS: Welsh Office letter to No.10 (statement on architectural defects at the University Hospital of Wales) [declassified Dec 2014]
85 Feb 15 Fr Major NHS: Fowler letter to Whitelaw ("Limited List of Drugs") [restrictions on prescription of certain non-generic drugs] [declassified Dec 2014]
85 Feb 15 Fr Major NHS: Willetts minute to MT ("Drugs") [restrictions on prescription of certain non-generic drugs] [declassified Dec 2014]
85 Feb 16 Sa Major NHS: Fowler letter to Whitelaw ("Limited List of NHS Drugs") [restrictions on prescription of certain non-generic drugs: draft leaflet for patients] [declassified Dec 2014]
85 Mar 1 Fr Major NHS: Willetts minute to Turnbull ("NHS Supervisory Board for Scotland") [declassified Dec 2014]
85 Mar 4 Mo Major NHS: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Michael Morris MP-Clarke) [limited list of NHS drugs] [declassified Dec 2014]
85 Mar 8 Fr Major NHS: DHSS letter to No.10 ("Health Charges") [statement on expanded NHS patient charges] [declassified Dec 2014]
85 Mar 13 We Major NHS: DHSS letter to No.10 (request from US Pharmaceutical Manufacturers Association to meet with MT) [PMA objects to limited list of NHS drugs] [declassified Dec 2014]
85 Mar 29 Fr Major NHS: Ronald Halstead, Chairman of Beecham Group, letter to MT (target rate of return on capital for Pharmaceutical Industry and limited drugs list) [declassified Dec 2014]