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1986 Jun 2 - 1986 Sep 30
Prime Ministerial Private Office files

PREM19/1854
National Health (Expenditure and efficiency in the National Health Service (NHS): NHS Management Board) (Part 6)

Source: TNA, PREM19 series
Release date: 2016 Feb 19
Classification: Secret
Page count: 253
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86 Aug 4 Mo Major National Health: No.10 minute to MT ("Ray Whitney and the Daily Mirror") [counterarguments to Whitney's proposed legal action] [released Feb 2016]
86 Aug 4 Mo Major National Health: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT ("Patients' Choice") ["attached... article... shows how the Government's consultation document on GPs has won the support of consumer groups"] [released Feb 2016]
86 Aug 13 We Major National Health: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT ("Health: the Politicians Dilemna") [increasing financial demands of NHS: alternatives to taxation] [released Feb 2016]
86 Aug 29 Fr Major National Health: Fowler PS letter to No.10 ("East Dorset Health Authority") [Conservative Chairman to resign or be dismissed, following media interest in internal disputes, in advance of Conservative Party Conference in Bournemouth] [released Feb 2016]
86 Sep 9 Tu Major National Health: Ingham minute to Mark Addison ("Daily Mirror") [arguments against proposed reference to Press Council, and advice on proper Ministerial handling of unfair reporting] [released Feb 2016]
86 Sep 22 Mo Major National Health: No.10 briefing for MT ("National Health Service Organisation") [reducing waiting lists; funding for local medical initiatives] [released Feb 2016]
86 Sep 23 Tu Major National Health: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Fowler) ["National Health Service": waiting lists; central pool of funds to be bid for; Royal Commission on financing/organisation of NHS; Chairman/Chief Executive of NHS; Special Advisor role for Roy Griffiths] [released Feb 2016]
86 Sep 25 Th Major National Health: DHSS minute to No.10 ("Sir Roy Griffiths' Role as the Government's Special Advisor on NHS Management") [remit; terms of employment; objectives] [released Feb 2016]
86 Sep 25 Th Major National Health: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Fowler, Roy Griffiths) ["Management of the National Health Service": appointment as Special Adviser] [released Feb 2016]
86 Sep 25 Th Major National Health: No.10 minute to MT (NHS Management Board appointments: draft press notice) [Chairman, Chief Executive & Deputy Chair/Government Adviser: No.10 disgrees with Fowler over emphasis to be placed on Adviser having direct access to Prime Minister] [released Feb 2016]
86 Sep 25 Th Major National Health: No.10 record of conversation ("Sir Roy Griffiths") [Nigel Wicks, Roy Griffiths: acceptance of the position of Deputy Chair of NHS Management Board/Adviser to Government] [released Feb 2016]
86 Sep 26 Fr Major National Health: No.10 minute to MT (Bethlehem Royal and Maudsley Hospitals: report of squalid conditions) [response to MT request for further details, following concerns raised by Fowler/Kenneth Stowe] [released Feb 2016]
86 Sep 26 Fr Major National Health: No.10 note to MT (NHS supplies service: Trent Regional Health Authority model) [publicity brochure, and Trent's selling of their system to other regional health authorities, brought to MT's attention] [released Feb 2016]
86 Sep 28 Su Major National Health: MT letter to Cranley Onslow MP (NHS waiting lists) [response to Onslow's proposals for NHS reform, and account of recent meeting with NHS Regional chairmen] [released Feb 2016]
86 Sep 30 Tu Minor National Health: No.10 minute to MT ("Announcements") [Fowler's health services package; new BBC chairman] [released Feb 2016]