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1983 Apr 7 - 1984 Feb 20
Prime Ministerial Private Office files

PREM19/1317
National health (Expenditure and efficiency in the National Health Service (NHS); NHS Management Inquiry Report (Griffiths Report); priorities and policies for health and personal social services) (Part 2)

Document type: File list item
Source: TNA, PREM19 series
Release date: 2014 Jan 3
Classification: Secret
Page count: 393
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83 Apr 7 Th Major National Health: Fowler letter to Tom King ("Efficiency in Personal Social Services") ["change in the role of my Department's 'Social Work Service'... [to] become an inspectorate"] [declassified Jan 2014]
83 Jun 29 We Major National Health: Department of Health letter to No.10 (reducing the cost of the NHS drugs bill) [proposals] [declassified Jan 2014]
83 Jul 6 We Major National Health: J.G. Colman briefing for Chancellor of the Exchequer ("Long-term Resource Assumptions for Health Authorities") [for meeting with MT] [declassified Jan 2014]
83 Sep 18 Su Major National Health: MT letter to Lord Weinstock (Nuclear Magnetic Resonance technology) [Professor Donald Longmore, National Heart Hospital, request to meet with Lord Weinstock to discuss development] [declassified Jan 2014]
83 Sep 18 Su Major National Health: MT letter to Professor Donald Longmore (NHS spending and the development of Nuclear Magnetic Resonance technology) [MT welcomes views of Consultant Clinical Physiologist, National Heart Hospital, on reducing NHS spending on bureaucracy in favour of patient care; MT asks Lord Weinstock to bring forward appointment with Longmore to discuss NMR development] [declassified Jan 2014]
83 Oct 6 Th Major National Health: Department of Health letter to No.10 ("NHS Management Performance") [peformance indicators] [declassified Jan 2014]
83 Oct 7 Fr Major National Health: MT letter to Kinnock (Parliamentary debate on the NHS) [response to Kinnock request] [declassified Jan 2014]
83 Oct 7 Fr Major National Health: Kinnock letter to MT (Parliamentary debate on the NHS) [request] [declassified Jan 2014]
83 Oct 7 Fr Major National Health: Department of Health letter to No.10 (Griffiths report on NHS Management Inquiry) [comments on the Report; handling] [declassified Jan 2014]
83 Oct 11 Tu Major National Health: Kinnock letter to MT (Parliamentary debate on the NHS) [Kinnock pushes for debate following MT refusal to initial request] [declassified Jan 2014]
83 Oct 11 Tu Major National Health: Fowler minute to MT ("NHS Management Inquiry") [comments on the Inquiry report; statement to Parliament; NHS Supervisory & Management Boards appointments] [declassified Jan 2014]
83 Oct 18 Tu Major National Health: Rees PS letter to Fowler PS (NHS finance) [summary of agreements reached following Fowler/Rees meeting] [declassified Jan 2014]
83 Oct 19 We Major National Health: No.10 minute to MT (Roy Griffiths: appointment to NHS Supervisory Board) [declassified Jan 2014]
83 Oct 21 Fr Major National Health: Fowler PS letter to No.10 Policy Unit (NHS Management Inquiry) [Fowler statement to Parliament] [declassified Jan 2014]
83 Oct 24 Mo Major National Health: No.10 Policy Unit minute to Andrew Turnbull ("The National Health Service") [cost reductions; patients' charter] [declassified Jan 2014]
83 Oct 27 Th Major National Health: Professor Donald Longmore letter to No.10 (Griffiths Report) [Consultant Clinical Physiologist at the National Heart Hospital: criticism of Report] [declassified Jan 2014]
83 Nov 9 We Major National Health: Tim Flesher minute to MT (kidney and bone marrow patients) [line to take] [declassified Jan 2014]
83 Nov 15 Tu Major National Health: No.10 letter to Department of Health (scope for economies and greater efficiency in the NHS) [MT to request to follow up on & develop points made by Fowler in recent Parliamentary speech] [declassified Jan 2014]
83 Nov 25 Fr Major National Health: Kenneth Clarke letter to Peter Rees (reducing the NHS drugs bill) [details of final proposals to be put to the pharmaceutical industry] [declassified Jan 2014]
83 Nov 29 Tu Major National Health: Department of Health record of conversation ("Implementation of the Griffiths Report in DHSS") [Fowler, Ken Clarke, John Patten, Ken Stowe, Henry Yellowlees, Dr. Acheson] [declassified Jan 2014]