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PDF 85 Apr 1 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) 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]
PDF 85 Apr 23 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) 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]
PDF 85 Apr 25 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) National Health: Department of Health and Social Security letter to No.10 (cervical screening in England) [review of policy] [released Feb 2016]
PDF 85 May 10 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) 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]
PDF 85 Jun 14 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) National Health: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT ("What People Think of the Health Service") [Marplan survey findings] [released Feb 2016]
PDF 85 Jun 20 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) National Health: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT ("Health Policy") [proposed new initiatives] [released Feb 2016]
PDF 85 Jun 27 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) 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]
PDF 85 Jul 19 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) 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]
PDF 85 Jul 19 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) National Health: No.10 Policy Unit briefing for MT ("Health Policy") [key issues for MT meeting with Fowler & Victor Paige] [released Feb 2016]
PDF 85 Jul 22 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) 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]
PDF 85 Jul 24 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) 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]
PDF 85 Jul 30 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) National Health: Fowler letter to Ridley (revisions to compensation arrangements for the compulsory purchase of land) [NHS perspective] [released Feb 2016]
PDF 85 Aug 7 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) 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]
PDF 85 Aug 15 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) 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]
PDF 85 Aug 19 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) 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]
PDF 85 Aug 29 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) 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]
PDF 85 Sep 27 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) 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]
PDF 85 Oct 24 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) 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]
PDF 85 Nov 5 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) 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]
PDF 85 Nov 25 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) National Health: Fowler PS letter to No.10 ("The Health Service in England: Annual Report 1985") [press release] [released Feb 2016]
PDF 85 Nov 27 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) National Health: Younger PS letter to No.10 ("Publication of Atlas of Cancer in Scotland 1975-1980") [details; key findings; press launch] [released Feb 2016]
PDF 85 Dec 6 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) National Health: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT ("The Health Service Waiting List") [proposal for a scrutiny team with "dictatorial powers" to target poorest-performing areas] [released Feb 2016]
PDF 85 Dec 20 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) National Health: Efficiency Unit minute to No.10 Policy Unit ("NHS Waiting Lists") [Victor Paige proposal for seminar to identify practical steps towards reducing waiting lists] [released Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Jan 10 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) National Health: No.10 minute to MT ("Roy Griffiths") [No.10 keen for Griffiths to take lead role on improving NHS, following his retirement; sensitivities relating to Victor Paige] [released Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Jan 10 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) National Health: No.10 Policy Unit briefing for MT ("Value for Money Seminar: Health") [advice on handling/desired outcomes; various other briefing notes attached] [released Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Jan 30 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) National Health: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT ("Health Service Waiting Lists") [ongoing debate between DHSS and Policy Unit over how best to proceed with addressing the issue] [released Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Feb 13 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) National Health: No.10 Policy Unit briefing for MT ("The Health Service") [MT meeting with Victor Paige; Policy Unit stresses need for NHS to be "galvanized into purposeful action"] [released Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Feb 14 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) National Health: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Fowler, Paige, Stowe, Ian Mills, Michael Fairey, Robert Armstrong, Robin Ibbs) [value for money in the NHS] [released Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Feb 18 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) National Health: No.10 minute to MT ("Family Practitioner Service") [discussion of Green Paper in committee] [released Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Feb 20 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) National Health: Fowler minute to MT (Social Security uprating and NHS charges) [prescription charges & 'lump sum' benefit payments] [released Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Mar 14 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) National Health: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT ("NHS Publicity") ["five practical proposals"] [released Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Mar 17 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) National Health: Cabinet Office minute to No.10 (Intermed) [David Mellor's intercession as constituency MP frustrates DHSS efforts to curb Intermed's monopolistic profits; "possibilities of political embarrassment" over Public Accounts Committee scrutiny] [released Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Mar 17 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) National Health: No.10 Policy Unit minute to David Norgrove ("NHS Waiting Lists") [DHSS asked to report back "when Norman Fowler... [has] a clear programme of action", following brief discussion at MT's Value for Money meeting] [released Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Mar 21 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) National Health: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Robert Armstrong) [review of mistakes made, lessons to be learned, and likely fallout from David Mellor's intercession in DHSS dealings with Intermed] [released Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Apr 17 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) National Health: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT ("Roy Griffiths") ["There seem to me to be two ways in which we could make Roy Griffiths Chief Executive of the Health Service"] [released Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Apr 29 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) National Health: No.10 minute to MT (NHS failings) [consideration of draft replies to criticisms raised by Professor McColl from Guy's Hospital, and to his proposal that Victor Paige be replaced by Roy Griffiths] [released Feb 2016]
PDF 86 May 9 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) National Health: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT ("Health Service Management") [background to first health service manager resignation & MT request for more details; Victor Paige's offer to resign] [released Feb 2016]
PDF 86 May 12 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) National Health: Cabinet Office minute to No.10 (communication with Ministers and MPs: guidance for officials outwith Private Offices) [proposal arising from Intermed/David Mellor incident] [released Feb 2016]
PDF 86 May 29 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) National Health: Ingham minute to MT (presentational aspects of the NHS problem) [recommedation to set up a special unit within DHSS to mobilise regional and local forces "to change the public's perception of the Government's stewardship of the NHS"] [released Feb 2016]
PDF 86 May 29 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) National Health: No.10 record of conversation ("The NHS") [Nigel Wicks, Kenneth Stowe: NHS Management Board: achievements; issues relating to current Chairman & Fowler; proposed replacement Chairman/next steps] [released Feb 2016]
PDF 86 May 30 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) National Health: No.10 minute to MT ("Health") [MT agrees to proposed meeting on effective presentation of Government's NHS policies; proposed media campaign; strategy proposals for winning public support; management & efficiency; private funding of healthcare; MT thanks Wicks for "excellent note"] [released Feb 2016]
PDF 86 May 30 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) National Health: No.10 note to MT (Chairman of NHS Management Board) [Victor Paige's resignation; appointment of Roy Griffiths] [released Feb 2016]
PDF 86 May 30 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) National Health: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT (effective presentation of Government NHS policies ) [proposals] [released Feb 2016]
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