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1985 Apr 1 - 1986 May 30
Prime Ministerial Private Office files

PREM19/1853
National Health (Expenditure and efficiency in the National Health Service (NHS): Value for Money seminars; NHS Management Board) (Part 5)

Source: TNA, PREM19 series
Release date: 2016 Feb 19
Classification: Secret
Page count: 270
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85 Apr 1 Mo Minor National Health: No.10 letter to Ronald Halstead, Chairman of Beecham Group (pharmaceutical industry profitablity and restrictions on prescriptions) [belated follow-up to Halstead letter to MT; "DHSS have had eight reminders"] [released Feb 2016]
85 Apr 23 Tu Major National Health: No.10 letter to Fowler PS ("Lee v South West Thames Hospital Authority") [MT request for further information, following verdict] [released Feb 2016]
85 Apr 25 Th Major National Health: Department of Health and Social Security letter to No.10 (cervical screening in England) [review of policy] [released Feb 2016]
85 May 10 Fr Major National Health: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT ("Michael Bewick: Dulwich Hospital") [management information & clinical budgeting; "there is change... but more needs to be done... visits by you to hospitals... would, I know, be very much appreciated"] [released Feb 2016]
85 Jun 14 Fr Major National Health: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT ("What People Think of the Health Service") [Marplan survey findings] [released Feb 2016]
85 Jun 20 Th Major National Health: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT ("Health Policy") [proposed new initiatives] [released Feb 2016]
85 Jun 27 Th Major National Health: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT ("The Health Service") ['Economist' article: "shows that your economic philosophy can apply to the Health Service just as much as to the rest of the British economy"] [released Feb 2016]
85 Jul 19 Fr Major National Health: Department of Health and Social Security briefing for MT (NHS Management Board) [agenda note for MT meeting with Fowler & Victor Paige] [released Feb 2016]
85 Jul 19 Fr Major National Health: No.10 Policy Unit briefing for MT ("Health Policy") [key issues for MT meeting with Fowler & Victor Paige] [released Feb 2016]
85 Jul 22 Mo Major National Health: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Fowler, Victor Paige, Kenneth Clarke, John Patten, Kenneth Stowe, Donald Acheson, David Willetts) ["Health Policy"] [released Feb 2016]
85 Jul 24 We Major National Health: No.10 minute to MT ("Sir Kenneth Bond") [possible lead role in extension of Audit Commission activity from local government finance to the NHS] [released Feb 2016]
85 Jul 30 Tu Minor National Health: Fowler letter to Ridley (revisions to compensation arrangements for the compulsory purchase of land) [NHS perspective] [released Feb 2016]
85 Aug 7 We Major National Health: Department of Health and Social Security letter to No.10 (future of the Opportunities For Volunteering scheme) [John Patten press release to announce relaunch] [released Feb 2016]
85 Aug 15 Th Major National Health: Department of Health and Social Security letter to Cabinet Office (appointment of a Director of Personnel for the National Health Service Management Board) [details of appointee agreed in principle & terms of secondment] [released Feb 2016]
85 Aug 19 Mo Major National Health: Department of Health and Social Security letter to Cabinet Office ("NHS Director of Procurement and Distribution") ["The present arrangements under which the Supply Council is expected to exercise leadership without executive powers are basically unsatisfactory"; details of new post and appointment terms & process] [released Feb 2016]
85 Aug 29 Th Major National Health: Efficiency Unit minute to No.10 ("Value for Money in the Health Service") [presentation on performance standards & indicators, to be delivered at the next of MT's ongoing series of seminars, at Efficiency Unit/Policy Unit's instigation rather than DHSS'] [released Feb 2016]
85 Sep 27 Fr Major National Health: Barney Hayhoe letter to Wyn Roberts ("Pharmacy Contract") ["we cannot go ahead with the new contract until new powers are available - and this means primary legislation"] [released Feb 2016]
85 Oct 24 Th Major National Health: Barney Hayhoe letter to Colleagues ("Selected List: Oral Mucolytics") [availability for prescription at NHS expenses: Advisory Committee review findings; changes to law] [released Feb 2016]
85 Nov 5 Tu Major National Health: MT letter to Martin Laing (design and build of hospitals) ["your concern that UK procurement practice in the hospital field... [reduces] the prospects for British contractors to win overseas work... I do want the Government to do everything it can to help. We are removing central controls..."] [released Feb 2016]
85 Nov 25 Mo Minor National Health: Fowler PS letter to No.10 ("The Health Service in England: Annual Report 1985") [press release] [released Feb 2016]