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1988 Oct 3 - 1988 Nov 9
Prime Ministerial Private Office files

PREM19/2341
National Health (Expenditure and efficiency in the National Health Service (NHS): NHS Review) (Part 15)

Document type: File list item
Source: TNA, PREM19 series
Release date: 2016 Jul 21
Classification: Secret
Page count: 361
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88 Oct 3 Mo Major NHS: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Review of the National Health Service") [decisions needed on independent hospitals and opting out by GPs] [released July 2016]
88 Oct 3 Mo Major NHS: Ian Whitehead minute to MT ("NHS Review") ["there is a real danger that the Review will be inadequate"] [released July 2016]
88 Oct 3 Mo Major NHS: Malcolm Rifkind minute to Ken Clarke (Health service in Scotland) [pubication of a stocktaking review] [released July 2016]
88 Oct 4 Tu Major NHS: Robin Butler minute to Nigel Wicks (NHS Review) [leak of information from meetings] [released July 2016]
88 Oct 5 We Major NHS: Paul Gray minute to Rifkind PS ("Stocktaking Review of the Health Service in Scotland") [MT concerned about proposed timing of publication] [released July 2016]
88 Oct 6 Th Major NHS: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Lawson-Walker-Clarke-Major-Mellor-Griffiths-Butler-Whitehead) [12th meeting of NHS review - self-governing hospitals, GP budgets, FPCs and DHAs] [released July 2016]
88 Oct 7 Fr Minor NHS: Paul Gray minute to Clarke PS ("NHS Audit") [to be conducted by the Audit Commission] [released July 2016]
88 Oct 10 Mo Major NHS: Ken Clarke minute to John Major ("Health and Medicines Bill: A Commercial Approach to NHS Property") [delegating powers to health authorities] [released July 2016]
88 Oct 11 Tu Major NHS: Malcolm Rifkind minute to MT ("Stocktaking Review of the Health Service in Scotland") [does not want to delay publication until after NHS Review further advanced] [released July 2016]
88 Oct 11 Tu Major NHS: Nigel Wicks minute to Robin Butler (NHS Review) [departments should be reminded of need to maintain confidentiality of proceedings] [released July 2016]
88 Oct 13 Th Major NHS: Peter Walker minute to MT ("NHS Review: Management of Capital Assets and Investment") [devolution of responsibility] [released July 2016]
88 Oct 13 Th Major NHS: John Major minute to Ken Clarke ("Health and Medicines Bill: A Commercial Approach to NHS Property") [proposal "has considerable potewntial ramifications for public expenditure control"] [released July 2016]
88 Oct 14 Fr Major Health: Kenneth Clarke papers ("NHS Review - Self Governing Hospitals" HC46; "Budgets for General Practice" HC47) [key practical issues] [declassified Jul 2016]
88 Oct 14 Fr Major Health: Policy Unit paper for MT ("NHS Review") [Clarke papers on GP budgets and self-governing hospitals "very much better than anything we have had to date"] [declassified Jul 2016]
88 Oct 14 Fr Major NHS: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Review of the NHS: Other Outstanding Issues") [medical audit, treatment of patients, District Health Authorities, greater role for private sector] [released July 2016]
88 Oct 14 Fr Major NHS: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Budgets for General Practice") [opting out for GPs] [released July 2016]
88 Oct 14 Fr Major NHS: Ian Whitehead minute to MT ("NHS Review") ["the proposed pace of change is still timid"] [released July 2016]
88 Oct 14 Fr Major NHS: Nicholas Ridley minute to John Major ("Health and Medicines Bill: A Commercial Approach to NHS Property") ["I have been trying to get the public sector ... out of property development"] [released July 2016]
88 Oct 14 Fr Minor NHS: Paul Gray minute to MT ("NHS Review Meeting: 17 October") [self-governing hospitals, budgets for GPs] [released July 2016]
88 Oct 19 We Major NHS: Rifkind PS minute to Paul Gray ("Stocktaking Review of the Health Service in Scotland") [publication will not conflict with any likely outcome of NHS Review] [released July 2016]