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1988 Jul 1 - 1988 Sep 30
Prime Ministerial Private Office files

PREM19/2340
National Health (Expenditure and efficiency in the National Health Service (NHS): NHS Review) (Part 14)

Document type: File list item
Source: TNA, PREM19 series
Release date: 2016 Jul 21
Classification: Secret
Page count: 396
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88 Sep 9 Fr Major Health: Kenneth Clarke paper ("NHS Review - Funding Elective Surgery" HC38) [MT: "Very disappointing & sketchy"] [declassified Jul 2016]
88 Sep 2 Fr Major Health: Kenneth Clarke paper ("NHS Review - The Overall Package" HC37) [reviews progress so far; urges that GPs hold budgets; pilot reforms] [declassified Jul 2016]
88 Jul 28 Th Major NHS: Arthur Anderson & Co letter to MT (NHS Review) [suggestions for improving cost effectiveness of NHS] [released July 2016]
88 Jul 26 Tu Major NHS: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Review of the National Health Service The Overall Package: A Summary of Conclusions So Far") [the government is "determined to modernise and improve the NHS, where it is weak"] [released July 2016]
88 Sep 12 Mo Major NHS: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Review of the NHS Meeting of Ministers on 14 September") [who should hold the budgets for elective surgery] [released July 2016]
88 Sep 2 Fr Major NHS: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Review of the NHS Meeting of Ministers on 6 September") [proposal that GPs should act as buyers for certain hospital services] [released July 2016]
88 Jul 22 Fr Major NHS: Cabinet Office briefing for No.10 ("Review of the National Health Service") [funding of hospitals] [released July 2016]
88 Jul 6 We Major NHS: Cabinet Office minute to Paul Gray ("Review of the National Health Service") [broad direction of long-term reforms] [released July 2016]
88 Jul 26 Tu Major NHS: Cabinet Office minute to Paul Gray ("Review of the National Health Service") [summary of conclusions so far] [released July 2016]
88 Sep 30 Fr Major NHS: Clarke PS minute to Paul Gray ("NHS Review: Papers for Ministerial Group on 4 October 1988") [self-governing hospitals, GP practice budgets, audit] [released July 2016]
88 Jul 28 Th Major NHS: Conservative Political Centre press release ("'The NHS: A Suitable Case for Treatment'") [No Turning Back group of Conservative MPs release recommendations]
88 Aug 24 We Major NHS: Dominic Morris minute to MT (Ken Clarke) [has fairly clear his reaction to ideas so far floated] [released July 2016]
88 Jul 22 Fr Major NHS: Ian Whitehead ("Proposed Closure of the Clinical Research Centre") [proposed expansion of Royal Postgraduate Medical School] [released July 2016]
88 Sep 9 Fr Major NHS: Ian Whitehead minute to MT ("Innovation in the Cheltenham Health Service") [company to sell private health screening service] [released July 2016]
88 Sep 13 Tu Major NHS: Ian Whitehead minute to MT ("NHS Review The Way Forward") [funding elective surgery] [released July 2016]
88 Sep 2 Fr Major NHS: Ian Whitehead minute to MT ("NHS Review") [responsibility for buying hospital elective acute services] [released July 2016]
88 Jul 20 We Major NHS: John Moore minute to MT ("Health and Medicines Bill - Lords Committee") [need the additional revenue dental and eye exam charges would provide] [released July 2016]
88 Jul 7 Th Major NHS: John O'Sullivan minute to MT ("NHS Review") [Treasury is "anxious to control costs"] [released July 2016]
88 Aug 30 Tu Major NHS: Ken Clarke note to MT (NHS Review) ["sorting out my thoughts"] [released July 2016]
88 Sep 30 Fr Major NHS: Ken Clarke paper ("NHS Review Management of Capital Assets and Investment") [responsibility for capital programmes] [released July 2016]