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1981 May 15 - 1986 May 29
Prime Ministerial Private Office files

PREM19/1864
National Health (Doctors' and dentists' pay; reports of Review Body) (Part 3)

Source: TNA, PREM19 series
Release date: 2016 Feb 19
Classification: Secret
Page count: 161
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Date Value Title
81 May 15 Fr Major National Health: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Jenkin, British Medical Association and British Dental Association representatives) [MT defends Government's decision not to implement the recommendations of the Top Salaries Review Body] [released Feb 2016]
81 Jun 9 Tu Major National Health: MT letter to Chairman of the Hospital Junior Staff Committee of the BMA (Eleventh Report of the Review Body on Doctors' and Dentists' Remuneration) [MT defends Government's decision not to accept pay recommendations, in particular with regard to junior doctors] [released Feb 2016]
81 Jun 19 Fr Major National Health: MT letter to Chairman of the Hospital Doctors' Association (Eleventh Report of the Review Body on Doctors' and Dentists' Remuneration) [review of junior doctors' work hours, in context of possible industrial action arising from Government rejection of pay award recommendations] [released Feb 2016]
81 Jun 26 Fr Major National Health: MT letter to Chairman of the Hospital Junior Staff Committee of the BMA (Eleventh Report of the Review Body on Doctors' and Dentists' Remuneration) [declines request for meeting; rejects proposal to implement pay recommendations at later date; notes need "to find a more appropriate way of reconciling cash limits with the Review Body system"] [released Feb 2016]
81 Oct 12 Mo Major National Health: Department of Health & Social Security letter to No.10 (pay review and the future of NHS General Dental Services) [draft MT reply to Dental Practitioners Association] [released Feb 2016]
81 Nov 30 Mo Major National Health: Fowler letter to Chancellor of the Exchequer ("Doctors' and Dentists' Review Body: Economic Evidence") [note of change to draft, to omit reference to possible repercussions of large pay award for the professions] [released Feb 2016]
81 Nov 30 Mo Major National Health: Chancellor of the Exchequer letter to Fowler ("Doctors' and Dentists' Review Body: Economic Evidence") [proposed amendment based on "commonsense" argument for pay constraints] [released Feb 2016]
82 Apr 10 Sa Major National Health: MT letter to Chairman of the Review Body on Doctors' and Dentists' Remuneration (District Medical Officer salary) [alignment with Area Medical Officer salary & most recent actual pay rise] [released Feb 2016]
82 Apr 14 We Major National Health: No.10 Policy Unit minute to Michael Scholar ("DDRB Report") [Review Body on Doctors' and Dentists' Remuneration: analysis of latest pay recommendations: "unhelpful"] [released Feb 2016]
82 Apr 27 Tu Major National Health: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Howe, Hailsham, Whitelaw, Joseph, Nott, Biffen, Fowler, Baroness Young, Tebbit, Jopling, Hayhoe, John Sparrow) [pay issues] [released Feb 2016]
83 May 16 Mo Major National Health: MT letter to Chairman of the Review Body on Doctors' and Dentists' Remuneration (Thirteenth Report of the Review Body) [recommendations accepted; delay in restoration of abatement] [released Feb 2016]
83 Jun 28 Tu Major National Health: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Robert Clark) ["Doctors' and Dentists' Review Body": disagreement over terms of reference] [released Feb 2016]
83 Jul 19 Tu Major National Health: No.10 letter to DHSS (Review Body on Doctors' and Dentists' Remuneration: terms of reference) [MT requests redraft of her letter to Chairman, after reconsidering her stance] [released Feb 2016]
83 Aug 8 Mo Major National Health: MT letter to Chairman of Review Body on Doctors' and Dentists' Remuneration (pay comparability and other criteria) [factors to be take into consideration in arriving at pay recommendations] [released Feb 2016]
84 May 31 Th Major National Health: MT letter to Secretary of the British Medical Association (Government response to recommendations of the Review Body on Doctors' and Dentists' Remuneration) [MT explains reason for delay] [released Feb 2016]
84 Jun 20 We Major National Health: MT letter to Chairman of the Review Body on Doctors' and Dentists' Remuneration (Government response to Fourteenth Report) [explanation of Government's decision to give staged pay award] [released Feb 2016]
85 Apr 30 Tu Major National Health: No.10 note to MT ("Doctors and Dentists Review Body") [Fifteenth Report: percentage increase in paybill] [released Feb 2016]
85 May 16 Th Major National Health: Secretary of British Medical Association letter to MT (recommendations of the Review Body on Doctors' and Dentists' Remuneration) [emphasises the cumulative loss in earnings due to Government declining to implement recommendatins in full for four successive years] [released Feb 2016]
85 May 29 We Major National Health: MT letter to Chairman of the Review Body on Doctors' and Dentists' Remuneration (Sixteenth Report) [response to recommendations] [released Feb 2016]